Snape's voice
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vickyduckyOr, more precisely, his accent.
I needed something to read in the bath last night, and I picked at random a short fic from last year's Snarry games. It was set almost wholly in Spinner's End, and I know this is ridiculous, but it was the first time that I really thought about it as a place. It is quite clearly meant to be a Northern mill town. This fic (it's upstairs and I'm afraid that at the moment I'm too lazy to go and get it so I can identify it properly) had decided that Spinner's End was in Todmorden, but I have to say I'm thinking more of Rochdale, or at least somewhere in Lancashire, and that would mean that Lily and Petunia and Snape would all have had Lancashire accents, at least when they were young.
Petunia I'm sure would have gentrified hers, given where she ended up living, and who she married (Uncle Vernon went to a Public school - no matter how minor) but what about Lily, and more especially Snape?
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geoviki's marvelous fic, A Thousand Beautiful Things, or actually, I think it's in the sequel, Draco and Snape have a wizarding accent. I've always thought that this is a superb little detail. It struck me when I first read this fic, that Harry should really have a Surrey accent - like Tom Felton's real voice rather than Daniel Radcliffe's RP - at least when he first goes to Hogwarts. I wonder if spending so much time amongst wizards, if there were a wizarding accent, it would rub off on people like Harry and Snape? I think accents are a thing of mine because having been born and brought up in the South of England, I've spent my entire adult life in the North and East Midlands. My son routinely picks me up on my pronunciation of words like castle, which I say with a long a sound (carstle) but he, and everyone around here, say with a short a, like in hat. He especially thinks the way I say mad (though obviously I don't say mard) is hysterical.
So anyway, the whole point of all this rambling is that it occurred to me that if Snape had retained his original accent, as I have, although I've picked up expressions and turns of phrase, then he would sound somewhat less like Alan Rickman and rather more like Peter Kay! I usually find things written in dialect tiresome (Hagrid) but I think Snape from Rochdale would be a whole new character.
I needed something to read in the bath last night, and I picked at random a short fic from last year's Snarry games. It was set almost wholly in Spinner's End, and I know this is ridiculous, but it was the first time that I really thought about it as a place. It is quite clearly meant to be a Northern mill town. This fic (it's upstairs and I'm afraid that at the moment I'm too lazy to go and get it so I can identify it properly) had decided that Spinner's End was in Todmorden, but I have to say I'm thinking more of Rochdale, or at least somewhere in Lancashire, and that would mean that Lily and Petunia and Snape would all have had Lancashire accents, at least when they were young.
Petunia I'm sure would have gentrified hers, given where she ended up living, and who she married (Uncle Vernon went to a Public school - no matter how minor) but what about Lily, and more especially Snape?
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geoviki's marvelous fic, A Thousand Beautiful Things, or actually, I think it's in the sequel, Draco and Snape have a wizarding accent. I've always thought that this is a superb little detail. It struck me when I first read this fic, that Harry should really have a Surrey accent - like Tom Felton's real voice rather than Daniel Radcliffe's RP - at least when he first goes to Hogwarts. I wonder if spending so much time amongst wizards, if there were a wizarding accent, it would rub off on people like Harry and Snape? I think accents are a thing of mine because having been born and brought up in the South of England, I've spent my entire adult life in the North and East Midlands. My son routinely picks me up on my pronunciation of words like castle, which I say with a long a sound (carstle) but he, and everyone around here, say with a short a, like in hat. He especially thinks the way I say mad (though obviously I don't say mard) is hysterical.So anyway, the whole point of all this rambling is that it occurred to me that if Snape had retained his original accent, as I have, although I've picked up expressions and turns of phrase, then he would sound somewhat less like Alan Rickman and rather more like Peter Kay! I usually find things written in dialect tiresome (Hagrid) but I think Snape from Rochdale would be a whole new character.
