HBP in russian translation.

[dumbledore11214]

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Just wanted to share - HBP officially translated in Russian hit New 
York book stores last week. :-)

I think I mentioned it earlier that I HATED PoA translation and GoF 
translation, but really like OOP. Granted they have to  continue with 
the stupidity of translating some names in the same way they started, 
but otherwise it was well done IMO. 

So, I know that it is not likely that translators get any special 
information from JKR, in fact it is 99% possibility that they do not 
know anything more than us, but in OOP they guessed pretty well, that 
power behind the locked room is Love. I mean not that it was that 
hard to guess. :-)

In any event - some interesting things that caught my eye.

"Spinner's End" is translated as "Spider's end", even though it is 
possible to translate it exactly.

"Severus, please" is translated " Severus, I am asking you", even 
though again, it is possible to translate it in Russian word by word 
and it will not sound awkward ( or have I forgotten already the rule 
of proper Russian and it will sound awkward if translated directly 
and I am making too much out of it. Sigh...)

If something else will catch my eye, will share ( I looked at the end 
for "Severus, please", I have not finished reading yet :-) Stucks a 
tongue at SSSusan - YES, I love spoilers, yes I do )


Alla, 

who thought that she is taking a break from posting about Snape with 
this post. Yeah, right. :-)