Audio Versions

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 6869

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Nick Mitchell" <nick at d...> wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> >Anyone else besides Michelle (anti-Jim Dale) and Heidi (pro-Jim 
Dale)
> >who has heard both the Dale & Fry versions?
> 
> I've heard a sample of both saying the same part from 
Philosophers/Sorcerers
> Stone... but I don't have the Dale recording of Sorcerers Stone 
itself.
> Come to think of it, I'm missing two tapes from the Fry version!
> 
> >I've not heard the Fry versions -- I own the cassettes & the CDs 
of all 4
> books and can't
> >really justify springing for another whole set in any format.
> 
> Well some good news - the BBC are aiming to Webcast on 26th December
> 12pm-8pm (UK Time)
> Remember to bookmark the following page:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/live_feed.html  Real Player 
(www.real.com)
> needed.
> Make sure you are 'tuned in' to the FM frequency broadcast.
> 
> >I seem to recall that some of the British members who had heard 
both
> versions also
> >expressed a preference for Jim Dale, but I could be remembering
> incorrectly.
> 
> You are Penny... I prefer the Dale version - more fun... but that's 
just me,
> other Brits may not agree.
> 
> Nick.


I justified my purchase of Fry's the PS by planning on giving it to 
my partner for Christmas. BUT, it's in my hot little hands right now, 
and I am listening to it. I'm enjoying it -- it's fun -- he's good --
but he does not differentiate the voices in the way Jim 
Dale does. With Fry, you know you are listening to someone reading, 
with Dale, you get far more caught up in the story.

Re: Hermione -- however you pronounce her........JKR was the one
who made her a pain in the first book (although she almost 
immediately starts to redeem herself --- remember SHE is the one
who takes action immediately to save Harry when Quirrell was trying 
to kill him during the Quidditch match --she thought it was Snape, 
but knocked over Q while going to Snape. And she sets fire to his 
cloak without him being able to figure out what happened...!!! And
she's a first year? Very talented, that young woman

Susan