Having a distinct voice for Neville kinda ruins the surprise that it\u2019s Neville standing up to the bullies at first and not Harry, as in the text he isn\u2019t identified right away. But I didn\u2019t really see any way out of that. It\u2019s a detail that is unfortunately unavoidably lost in translation.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also a bit odd when different people pronounce proper nouns in different ways. That may be avoidable, but it\u2019s harder to do when contributors are spread around the country\/world and you can\u2019t coordinate in real time. It\u2019s probably not a big deal, since people do pronounce names in a variety of ways in real life \u2013 as the owner of a very unusual name myself I\u2019m used to several variations on \u201cEneasz\u201d. I\u2019ve never had the Data\/Data problem<\/a>. But it feels weird in story form, since the Narrator is supposedly the Voice of God and the characters aren\u2019t supposed to diverge from him. Right? \/shrug<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having a distinct voice for Neville kinda ruins the surprise that it\u2019s Neville standing up to the bullies at first and not Harry, as in the text he isn\u2019t identified right away. But I didn\u2019t really see any way out of that. It\u2019s a detail that is unfortunately unavoidably lost\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}