Just some last minute observations

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cantoramy wrote:
> 2.  Watch the grammar!  The *one* sentence that makes me want to 
throw
> the book across the room is in GOF, UK pb, p. 496, when Crouch!Moody
> is speaking to Harry and Ron about overcoming obstacles in the past.
> "We helped," Ron said quickly.  "Me and Hermione helped."  *Me and
> Hermione*?  Who ignored that?
> 
And Taryn responded:
> I think it would've been far more far-fetched to have a 14-year-old 
speaking perfect grammar. The "me and someone else" is a common 
mistake for "someone else and I" in speaking. I wouldn't think that 
editors would touch much in /dialogue/, since people don't speak 
perfectly.
> 
And then I (Rhiannon the RavenSlyth) pitched in with my $0.02:
Perfect grammar is one thing; if any of the Trio suddenly began to 
speak perfect, thesis-quality English, I'd be pretty disgusted 
myself. But the line in question, IMHO, makes Ron sound considerably 
younger than 14. Call me an elitist, but I would expect a fourteen-
year-old of reasonable intellectual ability (which Ron certainly is) 
to know better than to start a sentence with "me and Hermione." What 
I would have done, had I been the editor, would be to delete 
that "helped" from the end of the sentence. "We helped.... Me and 
Hermione" is much more tolerable to me than "We helped.... Me and 
Hermione helped."

Off the subject a little, but dealing with the same quote: is JKR 
purposely trying to highlight Ron's insecurity in this scene by using 
dialogue that makes him seem younger? 


Waiting as patiently as possible for OoP,
Rhiannon the RavenSlyth