what else would a Brit use to preface a sentence like that?
Possibly they would preface with "Hey", or "By the way". Once upon a time Davey might have said, "I say, sir, have you have remembered etc" but that really is an old-fashioned thing to say these days.
The Dursley household (Vernon and Petunia) seemed curiously anachronistic for me in that way, mostly from the movies, so the word seemed to fit.
Yeah, Petunia in particular seems very 1960s, the way that Rowling writes her ... or even 1950s!
With the others, yeah. I was trying to give a sense of him as a tentative, shy, mumbly little guy. Not unlike my own Wee Hob.
Davey is a really great original character. :)
And Lisa's the perfect name for Dudley's wife, by the way. Lisa has been quite a popular name in the UK for a number of decades. I can really imagine him married to a Lisa.
I'm kind of surprised to see comments about a child of Dudley's being magic as a new idea-- I'm new to the fandom, but I would have thought it would be more common.
You're probably right. I'm pretty new to HP fanfic myself, having been involved in LotR fandom for ages. But I've read some wonderful fanfic set post-DH, and I really love your story so far. :)
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Date: 2007-10-19 07:45 pm (UTC)Possibly they would preface with "Hey", or "By the way". Once upon a time Davey might have said, "I say, sir, have you have remembered etc" but that really is an old-fashioned thing to say these days.
The Dursley household (Vernon and Petunia) seemed curiously anachronistic for me in that way, mostly from the movies, so the word seemed to fit.
Yeah, Petunia in particular seems very 1960s, the way that Rowling writes her ... or even 1950s!
With the others, yeah. I was trying to give a sense of him as a tentative, shy, mumbly little guy. Not unlike my own Wee Hob.
Davey is a really great original character. :)
And Lisa's the perfect name for Dudley's wife, by the way. Lisa has been quite a popular name in the UK for a number of decades. I can really imagine him married to a Lisa.
I'm kind of surprised to see comments about a child of Dudley's being magic as a new idea-- I'm new to the fandom, but I would have thought it would be more common.
You're probably right. I'm pretty new to HP fanfic myself, having been involved in LotR fandom for ages. But I've read some wonderful fanfic set post-DH, and I really love your story so far. :)