Interrupting is difficult. I imagine it\u2019s always difficult, even when everyone is gathered together in a room or on a stage, because when you\u2019re putting on a show you all have your assigned lines and it\u2019s natural to take turns saying them. It\u2019s hard to leave the \u201cYou go, now I go\u201d dance and move into listening for the sentence to come close to the interrupt point and start speaking while the other person is still talking. It\u2019s not made any easier when the lines are delivered remotely and there\u2019s no one else around to actually interrupt. In editing I\u2019ve erred on the side of making sure every word is intelligible (as it is when you read them) and never had any voices overlap. I sometimes wonder if that was the right decision.<\/p>\n
Interrupting is also a marker of status, and a sign of politeness. McGonagall is very proper and rarely interrupts anyone. Severus is abrasive and interrupts all the time. Most other characters follow social norms and freely interrupt those below them, occasionally interrupt their peers, and almost never interrupt a superior. It\u2019s interesting to note that Harry Potter will freely interrupt anyone he\u2019s talking to when he feels he has something to add. I asked a friend who didn\u2019t like the fanfic what turned her off, and she said it was the way Harry showed disrespect to McGonagall. I was a bit surprised, because I didn\u2019t feel he had (at least not egregiously). But I had been reading under the assumption that Harry was a person, and so him treating McGonagall as a peer didn\u2019t shock me. My conversational partner was a parent, and viewed Harry as a child, and for him to interrupt her or question her was too great a violation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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