[HPforGrownups] Language point that may have been missed

[Edward Post]

No: HPFGUIDX 54375


Eric Oppen stated and asked:
>
>I was just rereading GoF to keep off the pangs from knowing OoP is coming 
>out soon, and noticed something.  _Even when Fleur Delacour is > talking to 
>Madame Maxime or Gabrielle,_ she continues to speak English, albeit wiz an 
>'orrible French ack-sent.
>
>When the other three champs find out that Harry's a champion too, Fleur 
>says to Madame Maxime something about "zis little boy" competing.  Later 
>on, even in a very stressful situation, when she's > speaking to her sister 
>whom she'd given up for dead in the lake, she's speaking English.  "It was 
>ze grindylows..."
>
>Is this a Flint?

Mr. Ed replies:

I don't think it's a blatant mistake -- and I think you're overlooking one 
incident, in particular.  Take a look again at the scene immediately after 
Harry is named Champion -- and the Head Masters and Bagman and Crouch (and I 
think McGonnigal, too) are 'discussing' things.  I think just after 
Dumbledore asks Madame Maxime to join him for a night-cap, she exits with 
Fleur  -- and JKR states they're speaking to each other in F*****

(by Congressional Directive, us 'Muricuns ain't sposed to say that 
language's name, e.g., "Freedom Fries")

Monsieur Ed

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