House Elf Speech

[triner2001]

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No: HPFGUIDX C6760
From: triner2001
Subject: House Elf Speech
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6759] Re: Race in HP
Date: 8/13/00 8:55 am  (ET)

The one thing I noticed was that Dobby in CoS did not use the same H-E
dialect that Winky in GoF did. He did not say things like "I is not doing
it, sir" when speaking to Harry. He did always refer to himself by name
"Dobby is always having to punish himself..." which I thought was H-E
dialect. Aside from his use of his name rather than the use of a personal
pronoun, Dobby's grammar was correct, at least in CoS. I noticed (okay so
I have GoF & CoS side by side to compare) in GoF he does use wrong tenses
"...most wizards doesn't want a house-elf who wants paying..." Maybe JKR
forgot how H-E's spoke between CoS and GoF, or maybe she wanted them to
have a more distinct fashion of speaking. I don't know.

Trina