Slytherin - Scots & other audio issues - McGonagall - Italian

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 17989

Catlady wrote:

>Salazar's argument was that Muggle-born students were a security risk
>who might tell other Muggles about wizards and witches 

Is this in canon or is this part of the voluminous and creative 
Catlady-generated backstory?  I'm too tired to hunt up the relevant 
passages.

Catherine wrote:

>Interestingly, there is only one passage in the whole four books in 
>which I have disagreed with Stephen Fry's interpretation.  It was the 
>way he says Hermione's "Neville" after the first DADA lesson with Mad 
>Eye Moody.  I only noticed it, because it was the first time I had 
>thought - no that doesn't sound quite right.

How does he have her say it?  I wish I could hear the SF versions.  
All I've heard are some of the little bits on the audiobooks website.

Re: the Sorting Hat songs, Dale sings the second one (GF) but recites 
the first (SS).  

Re: Scots, it dawned on me, now on my third time listening to the Dale 
GF, that his Moody sounds an awful lot like Sean Connery.  Anyone want 
to comment on possible movie casting?  (SC is too handsome for the 
role, I would say--but perhaps if he would consent to having a chunk 
taken out of his nose...)  Catherine: aside from her name, McGonagall 
also wears a tartan dressing gown and puts thistles in her hat.  So 
there is a lot of support for Dale's McGonagall with an Edinburgh 
accent, IMO.

JD is very consistent with his accents--amazingly so--but I am bugged 
by his Crouch Sr., who starts out well, but quickly (by chapter 9) 
turns into a soundalike of Fudge.  It's okay for two characters to 
sound alike, but these two need to be distinguised from each other, 
IMO.

Rita wrote:

>Someone told some list that McGonagall was the surname of some guy 
who
>is widely believed to have been the worst poet ever in the English
>language.

The Book of Failures (by Stephen Pile, pub. Dutton, 1979) calls him 
"the worst British poet."  I will post details to OT-chatter.

Rita also wrote:

>If Parvati Patil is a Hindu, at least if she is a Shavite or a 
>Shakta (would that be Shaktini for a female?), she knows that 
>Parvati and Kali are the same person.

Madhuri or someone, correct me if I'm wrong, but:  A lot of Hindu gods 
and goddesses have multiple forms, but they aren't exactly the same 
person.  Roughly speaking, Durga is the warlike, and Kali the 
positively bloodthirsty, aspect of the goddess who is elsewhere the 
sweet and gentle Parvati.  It's cool that the Italian translator knew 
about Kali-Parvati, but why not just keep her name Parvati?

Craig, thanks for the terrific info on Italian.  Your suggestions are 
so good!  Maybe you can land the translation job for OoP.

Amy Z

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