Did you know that some translations of the Harry Potter books didn’t simply translate the work directly to their given languages, but also took great pains in adapting pun and joke names to make them funny for kids in different countries?
In the year 2000, when I was nine years old, my mother read the first Harry Potter book for me and my younger sister over the course of several nights.
After she had finished, I was still so entranced by the world which had been presented to me that I reread it several times on my own.
While I did not understand it at the time,
what I love about ‘Harry Potter’ is that they are mystery-novels disguised as fantasy.