evil, print run and population size

[hert0661]

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From: hert0661
Subject: Re: evil, print run and population size
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Date: 8/15/00 7:58 pm  (ET)

"Thanks very much for JKR's quote. Is this a recent interview? If you
have time, would you point us to the URL for it, if it is online? Thanks!"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/potter/jk_interview.shtml

This is from an interview on a BBC children's news programme. It was
aired just after the release of GoF. Look for the question "Now, Book
Four. Very scary ending. How difficult was it to write that?"

"Nevertheless, I'm obviously swimming upstream on the size of the student
body issue."

It has come up a few times before and, consequently, has been heavily
discussed.

"BTW, a poster on another board said that, in the British version of
the audiobook, Stephen Fry gave Hagrid a Dorset accent, which she didn't
think worked for Hagrid. As a Dorset man, do you agree?"

A couple of points to put in here.

I live in Dorset but am not actually a Dorset man since I moved to
the area as a child (totally unimportant but I thought I would put it
in anyway).

I have not heard the audio books but doubt that the accent is a Dorset
one. To me there is not really anything clearly definable as a Dorset
accent.

I would guess that the most likely accent meant by this is West Country
(Somerset). This is the accent I placed him as having, but quite a
few other possibilites have been stated (Scottish and Cockney to name
two). If this is the case then I have no problem with it.

The following is from an interview
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/49953/026-6791922-8586811)
with amazon:
Amazon.co.uk: How much input does JK Rowling have into the recording
process?

Fry: She has been kind enough to come to the recordings, but she doesn't
interfere. She has said that she approves, which is a great feeling when
you do a recording for a living author. I hope (and believe) that she
would be honest if there was something she didn't like.

This could be taken to mean that JKR agress with the accents used by Fry,
but maybe not!

I think it is time to open to comments from people with the UK version
of the audio books. Hopefully someone has these!

Simon