Does Viktor Krum become an important character?

[mommystery2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 118920


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Renee" <R.Vink2 at c...> wrote:

> Renee:
> I also disagree with you... Has it occured to you that some people 
> are unable to pronounce certain sounds in foreign languages because 
> their own language doesn't *have* those sounds? (AFAIK, neither 
> French nor Bulgarian have the English H-sound.) Sometimes people 
> simply can't hear a sound foreign to their own language well enough 
> to reproduce it. Babies and young children can aquire any phonetic 
> system, but if the language they grow up in lacks particular 
sounds, 
> their ability to produce them gradually diminishes and sometimes is 
> lost altogether. Whether someone will succeed to learn such sounds 
> at a later age often depends on their ear for music, but that is 
> something you have or don't have. Would you dislike people for 
being 
> tone-deaf?   
> 
> Renee

I don't dislike anyone who is tone-deaf, nor do I hate Krum because 
he's a foreigner.  I just don't like the character.  And yes I do 
understand some sounds are hard to pronounce in other languages.  I 
speak french and german and while I did have a hard time with the the
gutteral g in german, I did finally grasp it.  Not as well as a 
native, but I was able to maintain a conversation.

It is Krum's character that I dislike and his not pronouncing 
Hermione's name correctly is just one little thing that irritates 
me.  Anything Krum did in GoF managed to irritate me, just as 
anything Draco Malfoy does also irritates me.  I just didn't take to 
that character from the beginning.

Ces - who never meant to imply she hated foreigners or didn't 
understand that some languages are hard to grasp and hope she didn't 
offend anyone.