Language point that may have been missed

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No: HPFGUIDX 54389


----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Oppen

<snip> _Even when Fleur Delacour is talking to
Madame Maxime or Gabrielle,_ she continues to speak English, albeit wiz an
'orrible French ack-sent.

<snip> 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?

----Me----

I don't think so.  First, the book is in English, so what would they do?
they can't exactly have subtitles like the movies.  I imagine she speaks
whatever language the book is translated into.

Also, Fleur states that she want to come back to "work on her English."  She
could deliberately be concentrating on speaking English.  By the time the
second task had rolled around, she had already been at Hogwarts for a number
of months and may be speaking English out of habit by then.  In spite of her
accent, her English may be much better than we think.

~Cathy~