Harry Potter question for my f-list...

[rurounihime]

Okay, question...

How many of you fic readers and writers prefer the phonetic-speak for Fleur and Viktor in canon?

Example: "Eet eez no use. I cannot dress in zeez robes." ... "Vat vould you ask of me, Herm-own-ninny?" Etc.

How many of you just wish they were shown speaking like all the other characters, leaving the accents up to the readers' imaginations?

*is really curious*

Comments

[sayanything76.livejournal.com]

I looked at a few chapters in Deathly Hallows before trying to comment just because I was curious to pay attention to how JKR writes their dialogue. From what I noticed just in this one book alone, she seems to write Fleur's dialogue phonetically most of the time but not soo much for Viktor. Viktor's phonetic-speak only shows up every once in a while (though granted he is not in a lot of the book). Hagrid kind of falls in the middle of the two. I found that interesting.

Personally, when I first started reading the books (and fanfiction) it helped me keep character voices straight in my head when words were written out phonetically. Because honestly, sometimes I have a hard time getting accents to stick when I'm reading. Of course, people like Viktor and Fleur are mostly locked in at this point so I guess I could go either way.

[rurounihime.livejournal.com]

That's interesting, that she does it more in one spot than in another. Makes me wonder if her editors got hold of it...

Thank you for your thoughts!