One final thought on HP before we finish it today (or tomorrow at the LATEST)

[conuly]

1. I never noticed it before, but none of these people walk anywhere. They always "stride". Snape strides angrily. Hagrid strides quickly. Harry just strides around. Seriously. Stride, strode, all day long.

2. On the OTHER hand, Hermione wasn't waspish even once in this book. Clearly she got bitchier as she got older.

Comments

[trialia]

Molly's brothers? They were members of the original Order of the Phoenix, killed in the first war. Molly gave Harry Fabian's watch on his 17th birthday.

[pne]

Ah, OK, didn't remember them.

At first I thought they were some horrible local translation of the oldest two Weasley children.

[trialia]

*blinks* Um...I'm British, actually! *G*

[pne]

Oh! Sorry about that. Shall I type more slowly?

j/k - I'm British, too, at least by passport, though I've always lived in Germany.

But apparently some languages did make some rather... different choices in how (or even whether!) to translate the names of some of the characters.