Character vocabulary and inner voices (was: Re: Pink Flamingos/ Fourth Man Kayak and other ramblings)

[Bernadette M. Crumb]

No: HPFGUIDX 36549


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From: "marinafrants" <rusalka at ix.netcom.com>
SNIP

> A send-up of stereotypcial flamboyant gay behavior.  It seems
to be
> accepted wisdom in the popular US media that gay men are
fascinated by
> interior decorating and say "marvelous" a lot. So when you
compared
> Snape to a flamboyant interior designer, the image popped up.
Snape
> is certainly flamboyant, and since I refuse to 'ship him I'm in
no
> position to make statements about which way he swings, but I
refuse to
> believe that the word "marvelous" would ever pass his greasy
lips.

I don't know... how about done in an extremely saracastic sneer a
la "What a *marvelous* idea, Mr. Potter. I'm surprised no one
else ever thought of using billiwigs in a Healing Potion!"?

I don't think that I could read Snape saying the word using
"maaaaahvahlos" pronounciation if I tried, though.  Am I the only
one who hears the character's voices in her head when she reads
the dialogue?  (No, I don't mean Alan Rickman's voice for Snape,
but an "original" voice of my own wild imagination's concoction?)

Bernadette

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no
survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value
to survival."
-- C.S. Lewis (1898-1963).