ext_205817 ([identity profile] songquake.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] lomonaaeren 2009-12-25 01:41 am (UTC)

really? it's my favourite poem, too, but i was trying to scan it in my head, and i think that "Harry atque" would elide, making the foot a syllable short... (i had to memorise it for my college class in latin poetry.) so draco would have to choose not to elide in order for it to fit the meter, and i guess he could do it, but i had the impression that his latin was fluent enough to elide things all the time.

/geek.

[livejournal.com profile] lomonaaeren, lovely work as usual. i enjoyed trying to translate all the speech into latin in my head. and harry's frustration seemed so real, so honest, as did the slow development of a tentative romance. but the slowness of it just kept me desiring more.

lucius... ugh. but it's interesting how all the people at the Manor accept revenge as something he needs to do in order to restore balance to his universe, even though none of them necessarily approve of it (even narcissa).

like [livejournal.com profile] elgraves, i was surprised that lucius and narcissa didn't speak latin -- how did draco learn and keep his oral skills fresh? but i suppose that maybe learning conversational latin was something that was more in vogue when they were raising draco? at least that's the story i made up to answer the question and smooth over the inconsistency.

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