In which I bitch at Warner Brothers

[azurelunatic]

I was distressed to find a grammatical error in the end credits of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. As part of the art surrounding the credits, the legend "The Monster Book of Monster's" was seen.

Unfortunately, "Monster's", with the apostrophe, is the possessive form, and "Monsters", without the apostrophe, is the plural form. As the title of the book refers to plural monsters, the possessive form is clearly incorrect.

Seeing an error like this in a piece of student writing is painfully frequent. While I understand that the Marauder's Map was intended to be the creation of four teenage boys, this movie is also very influential to young people. I do not consider inspiring young people to punctuate like the Marauders at all a positive influence.

I humbly suggest that the grammatical error in the illustration of the end credits be removed for future releases of the film.

Comments

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[azurelunatic]

Then it would be "Monster's book of Monsters".

[moniqueleigh]

Not having read the book (*ducks*), I assumed that the map was meant to be a map for one marauder that could be used by several maraders - HP using it alone vs Weasley Twins using it collectively. *shrug*

I totally agree with you on the Monster thing though.

[azurelunatic]

The title of the book was written in the credits on the map, as a part of the map. It looked as if the Marauders had written it there.

The original Marauders are Messrs. Moony, Padfoot, Prongs, and Wormtail. (Those were their secret identities. Their mundane identities were not disclosed in the movie.)

[moniqueleigh]

Yeah, the hubs had explained that (secret id's) to me. I used the HP vs Twins more as an example. If I were part of a group creating a map such as that one, I probably would have called it "The Marauder's Map" as well, considering that it might be used by one marauder at a time. *shrug* But that's just me. :)