who is rab again

[Cairie Witter]

No: HPFGUIDX 140852


jajaredor, on the Subject of: Who is RAB again (WAS: Re: Snape and
Regulus/OFH!Snape), suggests that:

< I remember reading once that in deutsch, black is zwarts but this
hasn't been proved yet because I don't have a copy of the book in
deutsch version. so if RAB is really Regulus then the initials in the
deutsch version would be RAZ. (This, in support of the RAB == Regulus
Arcturus Black theory).>

Deborah:

Good thinking, just mildly flawed ... ! On a technicality, and to
minimise hopeless quests, Deutsch == German, where black, or Black, is
Schwartz. RAS, therefore ... As it would also be in Afrikaans.
However, in Dutch the initials would certainly be RAZ. Three fruitful
fields for research! Are these translations out yet?

After all, wasn't it the Portuguese translator who had to know the sex
of Prof Sinistra, and thus clarified for all of us that she's a she?

Any language which didn't use the B initial for the Blacks would do,
in fact - what fun! Polyglots of the Potterverse, unite! You have
nothing to lose but your speculations!

Cairie:

In the Afrikaans black would be Swart not Schwartz. 

I haven't read an Afrikaans version for a long time,   because, I need to get them from my audio libraries here in South Africa.

What I can remember is that Hermione Granger is changed to Hermien La Gransie.  Tom is changed to Eric.  I'll give you all the changes when i can.

Cairie