naming Dementors

[frantyck at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 28903

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., A.E.B.Bevan at o... wrote:
> On another point - something bugs me in PoA.  Its not a Flint but a 
> kind of name continuity problem.  In the first few Chapters the 
> Dementors are invariably referred to as the Azkaban Guards, the 
word 
> dementors not being used. After the encounter in the Hogwarts 
Express 
> they are called Dementors (or Dementors of Azkaban) and 
> never 'Azkaban Guards'. 
> 
> Edis


Minor aside: in the "authorised biography" of Rowling (Conversations 
with JK Rowling, Scholastic 2000, $4.99 US), the interviewer Lindsey 
Fraser ("a leading children's book enthusiast") does an overview of 
the series, in which she consistently refers to Dementors as, and I 
quote, "dementors." Lower case, no capital letter. In my (Bloomsbury) 
editions, 'Dementor' always has a capital D.