The subject heading ought to tell you what I'm on about. How do you pronounce "Animagus"? I'm asking because I just recently looked up the word "magus" in the dictionary and it has a long 'a', as in "bagel." *snerk* But I'd been pronouncing "Animagus", rather awkwardly, with two deep 'a's as in "father." So what's correct? Or do we know? Lisa I.