[HPforGrownups] Can JKR write dialogue? Her use of "Swifities" says "No."

[Anita Hillin]

No: HPFGUIDX 82744



Haggridd <jkusalavagemd at yahoo.com> wrote:
I came across this item in a thread on the use of adverbs in attributions of speech in JKR's dialogue over at OTC.  I found it surprising that David reached interpretations of more than one conversation in the HP books that were at odds with those JKR intended as evidenced by her modifying adverb.  

akh replied:

After reading Stephen King's review of OOP, in which he noted the "excessive" use of adverbs, I reread OOP and then embarked on another read of the earlier books.  I saw considerably less of the modifiers in the earlier books, so she must have relied more heavily on them in OOP than in the past.  I hadn't noted their use in the first read, but I am inclined to agree with SK that there are a few that, while I'm not convinced they contradict the meaning of the dialogue, may be redundant.  I mentally edited out some of them and found no real diminution of meaning.  

Perhaps she felt the dialogue was a bit more ambiguous this time than it had been in the past.

akh, who has a nasty tendency to "grade" everything she reads.



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