"Of the 325 million Harry Potter books sold around the world, some 100 million copies don't contain a single line of JK Rowling's prose. They're mediated by the work of other writers who set the tone, create suspense and humour, and give the characters their distinctive voices and accents. The only thing these translators have no impact on whatsoever is the plot, which of course is Rowling's alone."

"The job of any translator requires that they be simultaneously present and absent; altogether sympathetically embedded in the work and yet totally invisible."

Daniel Hahn im Guardian über die Übersetzungen von Harry Potter.

Sind das nicht einander widersprechende Behauptungen?

es gibt doch diesen legendären ausspruch, der übersetzer von prosa sei der assistent des autors und der übersetzer von lyrik sein konkurrent.