RAB Revealed? / translations

[mercurybluesmng]

No: HPFGUIDX 143355

Speedy:
> > ...neither in the German nor the Spanish translation is the name 
> > Black translated into Schwarz for the German nor Negro in the 
> > Spanish translation.
> > 
> > In both translations the Blacks are the Blacks. And I know for 
> > sure that in the Spanish version the note is signed RAB.

Ceridwen:
> ...I was wondering about the alternate names for R.A.B. that Hermione 
> dug up.  How are Rosalind Antigone Bungs and Rupert 'Axebanger' 
> Brookstanton translated?  Do they also have the initials changed in 
> the Dutch and Norwegian, to preserve some sort of doubt about the 
> identity of R.A.B.?


MercuryBlue:
I can't see how they wouldn't be. Hermione went looking for R.A.B. 
and found Bungs and Axebanger, who are clearly dead ends, but came 
to her attention only because of their initials. If she was looking 
for R.A.S. or R.A.Z., like in the translations, people with the 
initials R.A.B. would be utterly ignored.