Harry Potter a l'ecole des sorciers (Harry Potter French): Edition 2017

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They changed it for the same reason as they changed it from the original “philosoper’s stone” to “sorcerer’s stone” in America; They were scared that kids would be confused by the mention of philosophy and would therefore not read them, while sorcery might sound more apealing to children! Cat will take any and every opportunity to try a new book or comic series, and has an ever-growing TBR pile that she'd rather never know the actual count of. The Head of Griffindor (or Gryffondor) House is le professeur McGonagall but Harry’s nemesis in teaching form is le Professeur Rogue (lit: haughty) rather than Snape. And if you’re a Harry Potter fan, I definitely recommend giving the Harry Potter series a read in your language of choice.

There’s so much to say about the story, but the basic plot line revolves around a boy named Harry and his two friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, all students at Hogwards School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, who try to stop Lord Voldemort from conquering the wizard world. Asked if he thus pursued a luxurious contract, Ménard laughed warmly and said “It would have been inelegant. It is not simply a question of translating the plot and keeping all spells and names identical since this would mean that a lot of the magic of reading Harry Potter would be lost. Well, the answer to that is that the word would be verruecochon, which I think you’ll agree is rather more complicated than the pleasing sound of poudlard. The President said Rowling was offered Legion D’Honour because she had ‘given young people the taste for reading again’, teaching them that ‘reading isn’t a punishment but a source of pleasure’.Draco” comes from the latin word for dragon; shortening “le dragon,” the word for dragon in French, makes “Drago. Indeed, Gryffindor is Gryffondor (Lit: Griffin of Gold) but Hufflepuff is Poufsouffle a word suggestive of the phrase á bout de soufflé/out of breath. It’s funny that you happened to mention Finnish, I actually used to live in Finland and the sheer length of Finnish words always amazes me! If you're not upto 4 hours in English, as a nerd I do often speak fast, contact me and ask for Sabine.

You've no idea how much we love that - 'Beaux' meaning beautiful and batons, a word we've adopted ourselves for the baton twirlers in marching bands. Delacour sisters' cousins — two Veelas who attended Fleur's wedding to Bill Weasley in the summer of 1997.But I understand that the translator felt that ‘snape’ implied someone of a bad character, or ‘sinister’ side in English (which I agree with) and knew the word ‘snape’ would have no connotation for French readers, but the word ‘rogue’ does.

This is particularly great since a terrier is a small dog… So, in English, the translation would indicate that Ron lives at a terrier (or is it in a terrier? From my memory, books 1-4 were published in the smaller "Folio Junior" format (see directly below) first; however books 5-7 first appeared in the LARGER edition, making a first print set, a bit awkward. Readers were champing at the bit to get reading, In Germany impatient fans rebelled, so the French translator Jean-François Ménard began at 6am each day, working till midnight. The players fly around on broom sticks while trying to score points against the other team etc etc, you know how it goes.In this short post I am going to share my opinions on some aspect of the translation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, or Harry Potter á L’Ecole Des Sorciers as it is known in France.

And finally, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was turned into Harry Potter et les Reliques de la Mort.

It’s the paragraph when Hagrid takes Harry to the shore and Harry asks why you would be mad to rob Gringotts.