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my future 9 year old child reading Harry Potter: I love this mommy
me: great but stay open minded and critical and don’t take everything at face value. I have prepared discussion questions
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Saw Stephen Fry live last week, and he told us this story: Just after the first Harry Potter book had been released, he was offered the role of narrating it for audiobooks. He hadn’t read it, and was simply told it was a children’s book, so figured it would be an easy afternoons work. When he met JK Rowling, she mentioned that she was writing a sequel. Stephen replied very condescendingly “good for you”.
A few years down the line, the books are selling well, and he is doing the recording for the Prisoner of Azkaban, when he runs into the phrase “Harry pocketed it”. Stephen could not say this line. It always came out as “Harry pocketeded it”, unless he said it ridiculously slowly. They tried time and time again to get it right, but to no avail. Eventually, he called up JK and asked if he could say “Harry put it in his pocket” instead. She thought for a moment, then said “no”, and hung up.
The phrase “Harry pocketed it” appeared in the next four books.
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oh my gods the SFX secret actually is so ridiculous i can’t stop laughing
oh my god. this is so freaking cool and hilarious.
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Hard to argue with that logic. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(Thank you to the MANY lovely people that recommended this scene from Deathly Hallows!)
HP + HP cast related questions in Daniel Radcliffe’s Reddit AMA (27 Oct 2014, 2pm EST)
“probably sirius. or lupin. any of the characters my dad used to hang out with.”
MY DAD
MY DAD
M Y D A D
my eyes are leaking