Harry Potter all around Europe!

[delwyn_march]

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From: delwyn_march
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Date: 8/17/00 7:29 am  (ET)

Salut !

I'm back from a two-week holiday, and I can't believe how many messages
I'm supposed to digest. I *knew* it would be this way of course, but
actually counting it up to 1700 is just depressing ! So I probably won't
make it, and *please* excuse me if I ever happen to repeat something
that's been said recently.

Well, Anatty, I'm very glad you enjoyed your trip in Europe, but I
can't help feeling sad at reading your description of how much HP is
loved in those Northern countries (Germany, Sweden, Norway and Denmark
are all north of France). Why, *why* can't it be the same here ??!! My
fellow French people have discovered HP only a few months ago and they
like it all right, but they sure don't care about when the next one is
going to be translated, they probably don't even know it's already out
in v.o. (Version Originale, original version, English that is for HP),
and they might even ignore that PoA is not the last book of the series
! As for reading it in English, they would *never* get down to that
: French is our *sacred* language, and it must not be *corrupted* by
English ! Whereas in those Northern countries, they tend to learn English
at a young age and read books and watch videos in v.o.. As a result,
they already have GoF in most bookstores, not only in half the British
or American bookshops of their capital cities (like I discovered last
week in Paris), and they can share the fun and excitement of waiting
for the translated one, while the few of us HP fans in the city I live
in only have our little English class to share it with (we discovered
HP as part of a training course for the First Certificate of English,
a Cambridge test of English as a foreign language - all passed, most of
us with grade A).

So I do hope that all of you folks who live in countries where HP is
more than just "a nice and amusing book for children" thoroughly enjoy
the atmosphere ! As for me, I'm so hungry for anything HP-related here in
France that I think I wouldn't even mind if all we got was all the wrong
side, like the legal battles or the so-called moral issues/censorship
stuff. Anything to avoid hearing people enquiring for HP twice in a day
like last week in Paris in those English bookstores but never until then
and never since, anywhere !