There were indeed other phrases where Rowling uses ‘pocketed it’, but nothing that could be compared to the ultimate tongue twister."Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'." ‘Harry pocketed it’ was phrased two times in Goblet of Fire and that was it. And although we really love Stephen Fry, we have to refute his statement. Stephen Fry told that Rowling, in some sort of retaliation for his approaching her that first time in hopes to have her permission to modify the phrase, added the tongue twister phrase in the consequent books a few times.
The phrase ‘Harry, however, pocketed it’ is first said in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, it was the scene where he finds Tom Riddle’s Diary at Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom. However, we did our research and we found out that that phrase was not part of Prisoner of Azkaban. The phrase in question was ‘Harry pocketed it’ He recalls that while working on the audiobook for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban there was a phrase that was like a tongue twister for him. And here is where his memory goes a bit low. ‘By the third one this had become something of a phenomenon, as you can imagine, and by the fourth it was insane’. ‘Good for you!’ he remembered answering her, maybe not imagining what was going to happen. It was on his second day at the job, when Rowling told him that she was writing the second book. He accepted the job and went to met with Joanne Rowling, he recalls her to have been very nice. That’s how he started recalling how his agent called him to do a children’s audiobook, it was ‘ Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, unless you’re american, where the word ‘philosopher’ would terrify you and it’s called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, in America’, joked Fry, who admitted to think that the book was rather good once he finished reading it.
So, it was not a surprise that Fry was approached about his work on the audiobooks of Harry Potter. The book follows the story of Troy in Greek mythology, and is accompanied with live illustrations by Chris Riddell, the same man behind the illustrated deluxe version of The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
The festival hosted various events and among them was the panel of Stephen Fry, where the actor and writer was presenting his third book on the re-telling serie Mythos and Heroes.
This past May, the Hay Festival was held in Wales. Stephen Fry, his low memory and how he pocketed it Ayelén Vegagil Espósito 415 words
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