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Dec. 11th, 2005
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Oh damn ...
Dec. 11th, 2005 07:50 pmJust seen the transcript of that JKR interview:
JKR: I think the thing that I find most extraordinary is - I don't know how many characters I have in play now - how do you find voices for them?
SF: It's not a simple thing to answer. I mean, so often they're there and I hope that, generally speaking, I've...if not given exactly the voice you imagine, that it's somewhere in that area. I mean, there are characters like Tonks which, for some reason, I just instinctively felt she had that slightly sort of Burnley, you know, sort of Jane Horrocks sort of accent. [JKR laughs] And it just seemed to fit her exactly.
JKR: It does, yeah.
...
SF: And yet you did, there's no kind of "put wood in th'ole..."
JKR: No.
SF: And bar that kind of Northern writing it ... It's just something that's there.
Tonks with a Northern accent? Not the semi-Cockney-if-anything-at-all I (and most other people it seems, to be honest) went for on the basis of that 'Wotcher'?
Bugger. :)
Oh well. Of all the things she could have said that would leave my riffing on her world looking the worse for wear, that one's pretty minor. It's just that in the next (nearly finished) chapter of said riffing, there's a character with 'one of the broadest Northern accents Tonks had ever heard' ... :)
JKR: I think the thing that I find most extraordinary is - I don't know how many characters I have in play now - how do you find voices for them?
SF: It's not a simple thing to answer. I mean, so often they're there and I hope that, generally speaking, I've...if not given exactly the voice you imagine, that it's somewhere in that area. I mean, there are characters like Tonks which, for some reason, I just instinctively felt she had that slightly sort of Burnley, you know, sort of Jane Horrocks sort of accent. [JKR laughs] And it just seemed to fit her exactly.
JKR: It does, yeah.
...
SF: And yet you did, there's no kind of "put wood in th'ole..."
JKR: No.
SF: And bar that kind of Northern writing it ... It's just something that's there.
Tonks with a Northern accent? Not the semi-Cockney-if-anything-at-all I (and most other people it seems, to be honest) went for on the basis of that 'Wotcher'?
Bugger. :)
Oh well. Of all the things she could have said that would leave my riffing on her world looking the worse for wear, that one's pretty minor. It's just that in the next (nearly finished) chapter of said riffing, there's a character with 'one of the broadest Northern accents Tonks had ever heard' ... :)