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Pronunciations
"Her-my-oh-nee,"
she said slowly and clearly.
"Herm-own-ninny."
"Close enough,"
she said...
-- Hermione Granger and Viktor Krum
"You're saying it
wrong. It's Win-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the 'gar' nice and
long."
-- Hermione Granger
Pronunciation
list:
Pronunciations
for spells are included in the Encyclopedia
of Spells.
Where
possible, these pronunciations have come from JKR herself saying the names.
Alastor:
AL-as-tor
Bartemius:
bar-TEE-mee-us
Beauxbatons:
boh-ba-TAWN
bezoar
- BEE-zor (although
Jim Dale pronounces it beh-ZHWAH)
Draco Malfoy:
DRAY-co MAL-foi
Durmstrang:
DURM-strang
Dursley:
DURZ-lee
(not DURSE-lee)
Firenze:
fye-REN-zee
Fleur Delacour:
FLUR deh-leh-COOR
Hermione:
her-MY-oh-nee
Olympe
Maxime: oh-LIM-peh
max-EEM
pince-nez:
pans-nay
Remus Lupin:REE-mus
LOO-pin
Rubeus
Hagrid: roo-BAY-us HAG-rid (NPC)
Voldemort:
VOL-duh-mor
(the final 't' is silent (NPC))
Weasley:
WEEZ-lee
The
Harry Potter Pronunciation Table, a website that specializes in pronunciations
of many, many Harry Potter words, is THE place to go if you're wondering
about any other words and how to say them.
See also
the pronunciation guides listed on the Web
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