Yeah. Harry talks this way. It’s not an authorial accident. It’s meant to be alienating and offputting to his peers, emphasizing the distance between Harry and a normal 11-year old.
I think when he’s trying to communicate with someone Harry can speak on their level, but when he’s upset he goes back to talking like a robot.
I think this is doubly emphasized by the bit where Draco struggles to rephrase his thoughts without using “Harry words”, but given that the fic is meant as an evangelizing platform for rationality it makes me wonder whether there’s a good way to lessen the turnoff of such speech.
Ideally we’d have Hermione and Draco speaking the same ideas in a more colloquial fashion, but that would seem forced in all of the ways I can imagine it being done.
Yeah. Harry talks this way. It’s not an authorial accident. It’s meant to be alienating and offputting to his peers, emphasizing the distance between Harry and a normal 11-year old.
I think when he’s trying to communicate with someone Harry can speak on their level, but when he’s upset he goes back to talking like a robot.
I think this is doubly emphasized by the bit where Draco struggles to rephrase his thoughts without using “Harry words”, but given that the fic is meant as an evangelizing platform for rationality it makes me wonder whether there’s a good way to lessen the turnoff of such speech.
Ideally we’d have Hermione and Draco speaking the same ideas in a more colloquial fashion, but that would seem forced in all of the ways I can imagine it being done.
Yes. I had the same problem at that age. When not concentrating, I would forget to phrase things in ways children could understand.