They were the lest fowk ye wid jalouse wid be taigled up wi onythin unco or ferlie, because they jist widnae hae onythin tae dae wi joukery packery like yon. In retrospect, AS Byatt might have been the wrong person for the New York Times to commission to appraise the series’ success. See “The Hippogriff in Harry Potter As a Prime Example for Intertextuality”, “No Grace for James: James Potter and the Noble Heathen”, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: A Psychoanalytic Viewpoint”, and “From the Holocaust to 9/11: Harry Potter and the Contemporary Struggle with Evil” for details. The sport of Quidditch is now Bizzumbaw, a “bizzum” being a broom (as well as a fine Scots insult) and “baw” being ball.

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One TikTok user recently posted about the rarely discussed translation, in a video that has since been viewed over two million times. The holy grail of Potter apocrypha for book dealers is the 800‑word prequel she wrote on a postcard in 2008. Fun fact: there was one of these in the Daily Telegraph’s books cupboard for many years, but it mysteriously went missing in the early noughties.She has been vocal about her love for her adopted country, once saying: “It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. You can get a taste of the rich Scots language from this passage and begin to appreciate its nuances.

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Welcome to r/HarryPotter, the place where fans from around the world can meet and discuss everything in the Harry Potter universe! Harry’s father, James, comes out before his mother, Lily – when, according to the established story, he died in the process of trying to help his wife and child escape. If you find one of these knocking about in your downstairs loo – the print line on the copyright page is 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 – it’s worth a small fortune.Other Scots parents may simply be glad of the chance to read Harry Potter as a bedtime story without being bored into slumber themselves. There's a habit of treating anything to do with Scots as inherently 'fun' – putting on a silly voice and not quite speaking properly. The Highland Clearances are the name we gave to a process in which landowners realised there was more money in using the land for grazing sheep and, later, for staging hunts.

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After decades of decline, boarding schools reported a surge in applications from the late 1990s which headteachers attributed to the “Harry Potter effect”. While most have been genuinely enthusiastic, it's still irritating that it's seen as a bit of a novelty. Considering much of the series is set in Scotland, with Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry located in an unidentified area of the Highlands, it makes sense that there would be a Scots edition. No longer is he the director of a firm that makes drills; he is, in fact, the “ heidbummer” – a word which is not only funnier, but better conveys his professional smugness.

According to figures released in 2015, more than 87,000 Scots have at least some understanding of the language, with the proportion of people who can speak it increasing slightly in younger age groups. Haig Club, on the other hand, was a brand of whisky launched in 2014, in association with former England football captain David Beckham and English music producer Simon Fuller.

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Alex Renton, author of a polemic against these schools, Stiff Upper Lip, points out that like the authors of most boarding-school stories, Rowling went to a day school. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stane, released last November and translated by Matthew Fitt, is an official version of the story in the Scots language.years after it was first published in the UK in 1997, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is to be translated into its 80 th language – Scots!