RAB is RAZ

[Miles]

No: HPFGUIDX 143294

antoshachekhonte wrote:
> We know that translators contact Rowling for confirmation that their
> assumptions are correct, and that she does in fact give them straight 
> answers--the Portuguese translator of the books queried Blaise 
> Zabini's gender, since s/he needed to use the proper article, and
> was told authoritatively (accurately, as it turns out) that Blaise
> was a boy.


Miles:
We are still very speculative on this, aren't we? The sex of a person is not part of an important clue like the signature R.A.B. is. So, your example of translators in contact with Rowling IMO is not significant for the question we discuss.

As I stated before, I know that some Dutch readers want to contact their
translator (who translated R.A.B. in R.A.Z., Z. for Zwarts as the Dutch
version of Black). Hopefully we will know whether he had a guess - or better information than we all have.

Miles