Pronunciations (Re: Does Viktor Krum become an important character?)

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 118926


Kim wrote :
"My sense is that Viktor might have done a better job pronouncing
"Hermione" in reality, but that JKR was just making a little fun of
the situation."

Del replies :
Oh ! That reminds me of something else. I don't have my book with me,
but if you'll recall, when Hagrid goes to get Madame Maxime to show
her the dragons, he greets her with (if I remember correctly)
"Bong-sewer". Well, believe it or not, but that one had me stumped for
a long time. I figured it might be some British saying of some kind.
When it finally hit me that Hagrid is trying to say "Bonsoir", I went
into a hysterical fit of laughter :-D !! 

"Dee-john" might have escaped me too, if Hermione hadn't set it
straight immediately :-)

Del, whose 2-year-old son is daily digesting a mix of French, English
and Slovenian, playing the German video game his grandma offered him,
and occasionally listening to his great-grandma or the TV speak in
Croatian (his dad speaks all those 5 languages, and we figure it's
gonna be "like father like son" ;-)