A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts Chapter 205 Discussion

I'm quite farther along the MTL version of the book but I'm at chapter 205 of Hollywood's translation. The book itself is pretty good, but there are some glaring issues with the translation that just aren't there in the MTL version.

There are so many pronoun mixups where various characters will be referred to as "he/him" and then "she/her" in the same sentence, if not a couple sentences later. It's a little confusing and I honestly would not mind if it weren't for the next error.

The translation just can't get names right. For example, Neville Longbottom might be called Norton Lanbutton or something else that sounds similar to the pinyin, Filius Flitwick might sometimes be called Felix Harp, the Paris arc where one of the characters is called Celeste in one chapter, Sylvester in another, or Celestina, Seamus Finnigan is called Symo, Charity Burbage is sometimes called Carridy Bubbagee. Remus Lupin (and Alastor Moody I believe) are just namedropped out of nowhere in the middle of the 2nd school year with no context to suggest that their names would be appropriate in that situation. The list just goes on. It makes the story somewhat difficult to follow. So far, the only names that are constantly correct seem to be the trio, Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape. I imagine that it would be hard for the reader to get into this story if they had not already read the original books since they would be confused about the character names. The machine translation seems to be better with the names, but it reads a little more awkward in terms of phrasing. I may have gotten some of the above examples wrong, but it doesn't detract much from my complaint about this issue.

I don't have much to complain about the book's quality, but the translation is going to drive off any readers who may not be familiar with the original books. I have never posted reviews before on this site, but I had to write this one since I only saw one review on this site pointing out the names issue but without any specific examples. The translator needs to get an editor FAST.