Stephen Fry on Tonks

[Ali]

Fry has recently been interviewed in the Sunday Times following the 
release of his version of OoP. This is the excerpt in which he 
discusses Tonks' voice:-

<<<When I did the first Harry book, Jo Rowling said I'd done the 
voices as she imagined them.  She doesn't say what accents they 
have, but you get a sense of it from the rhythm and word order of 
their speech. In Phoenix, I instantly thought Tonks should sound as 
if she came from Blackburn or Rochdale in Lancashire, slightly Jane 
Horrocks.>>>

I still can't reconcile Tonks to the accent that Fry gives her, 
whatever he and his producer think. I also got confused as I thought 
he was trying to speak in a Yorkshire accent! Having lived in 
Lancashire (well, ok, Manchester) and Yorkshire, with friends from 
both counties, I thought I could tell the difference, but at the 
risk of starting another War of the Roses, I obviously can't!

Ali