This clever combination gives you choixpeau, or “choice-hat,” with the adjective magique thrown on just to let you know that this is a magical choosing hat.

Poppy Corby-Tuech, who portrays Vinda Rosier in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, is a French-British actress. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. For the Harry Potter series, this brings up a whole lot of questions: How do you recreate the wordplay and hidden clues that are spread across the text – from character names to places within the wizarding world?

That’s a pretty big feat considering literary translation est extrêmement difficile (is extremely hard)! Accepting the Legion D’Honour she was glad that the French were never offended by her heartless villain’s French name. The French edition removes all regional accents and colloquialisms for the same reason: proper, correct French is seen as vitally important. This year 2017 has seen the twentieth anniversary of the publication of the first book in the Harry Potter saga, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, which came out in June 1997.

I am very happy to have this success, and my greatest reward is to imagine thanking Harry since children all over the world have discovered the pleasure of reading.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. Edition, later print translation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, published by Gallimard. So what do French Harry Potter fans think when they see the Hogwarts crest with a giant H in the middle and not a P? The first print of the 1st French edition, I've been told is becoming quite hard to find, which makes sense given how many of these books were made (making identifying a 1st print harder in the wild), and the shoddy overall quality of the these editions. This could mislead readers into thinking that these features of the house and boarding systems didn’t exist in real-world British schools.

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! His first name comes from the Latin 'Draco' for dragon, whilst his surname came from French, Malfoy, meaning bad faith. In the original, Hogwarts school is divided into the four houses, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. Delacour sisters' cousins — two Veelas who attended Fleur's wedding to Bill Weasley in the summer of 1997.I love this, I’ve had a french exchange over and she’s made about Harry Potter, so we’ve had fun discussing the differences. I know the story back-to-front and therefore can fill in the inevitable gaps in my knowledge of French vocabulary pretty easily. Poudlard is the French version of Hogwarts and literally translates to “lice-bacon,” or more accurately, “bacon lice,” and therefore captures the meaning behind “Hogwarts,” a pig that has some sort of skin issue. I've heard from my friends in France that 1st/2nd prints of Chamber are also becoming quite hard to find. In the world of wizards, they aren’t paying for their wands and brooms in pounds or euros, but in bronze Knuts, silver Sickles, and golden Galleons, or Noises de bronze, Mornilles d’argent, and Gallions d’or.

The Harry Potter Wiki is written from the perspective that all information presented in canon is true (e. For the French translation, Ménard wanted to keep the meaning by translating the House name to "Poufsouffle" to express the breathlessness and struggle that characterizes the students of that house.

Similar the to the 1st print of the first edition, this 2nd Print French translation of harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, published by Gallimard, features internal chapter illustrations. So “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” became “ Celui-Dont-On-Ne-Doit-Pas-Prononcer-Le-Nom” (he of which we should not pronounce the name).