Trailer: regional accents

[Jim Flanagan]

Someone on the main group said the Ron spoke with a bit of a London 
twang and that Harry sounded like boarding school RP.  This is a bit 
curious since Harry attended a muggle school not too far from London 
(Surrey), while Ron didn't attend muggle school (presumably) and grew 
up in the West, near Chudleigh (again presumably).  Where did Ron 
get "wicked" and "she neids to sor! ou! heh priowi!ies" (where "!" is 
the glottal "t" sound)? 

To my ear, Hermione sounds rather posh and hypercorrect, as you would 
expect.

About the only dialogue that we hear from Harry is "wow," and 
possibly the reading of the Hogwarts letter during the boat scene.  
Whoever is reading the letter sounds very young and stumbles over the 
words, so the accent was hard for me to pick up.

Dumbledore seems to pronounce his r's a bit.  Maybe that's to make 
him sound more down to earth and less "posh."

-Jim