Did anything in the HP series make you roll your eyes a bit?

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 24636

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., cynthiaanncoe at h... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., John Walton <john at w...> wrote:
> > cynthiaanncoe at h... said:
> > 
> > > The diction of house elves grates on my ears, particularly Winky 
> (PA,
> > > GoF).
> > 
> > But house elves is supposed to be talking funny! Otherwise they is 
> not being
> > house elves! And they is sounding a lot less dangerous this way. I 
> is
> > thinking that house elves is going to be playing a bigger part in 
> the next
> > books, I is.
> 
> As for the house elves' dialect, dialects are fine, and Hagrid has a 
> well-written dialect that really humanizes him.  Doesn't get in the 
> way at all.  But the house elves?  Kind of like reading dialogue 
with 
> speed bumps in it.
> 
>
 
I must be in the minority about House Elf dialect.  I listened to Dale 
after reading it and I thought that it was just perfect for the story.

Haggridd