[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Pronouncing Accio

[kemper mentor]

Hello...
 
I'm not sure the pronounciation is all that important.  It's the intention behind the word/spell.  
 
Dumbledore frequently doesn't use his voice for magic, though he muttered a spell on the statue head and it changed to a portkey. Perhaps if he hadn't just dueled Voldemort while protecting Potter and if the Ministry of Magic wasn't being filled with confused, frightened, loud employees and their flustered Minister, he wouldn't needed to have voiced the spell.  But maybe Dumbledore voiced the spell to help keep him focused on the spell's outcome (intention).  
 
Potter early in the book loses his wand after getting knocked in the face by his cousin.  He scrambles on the ground searching for his wand, and without the wand, yells, or at least raises his voice some, "Lumos!"  Canon says, "He said the spell automatically, desperate for light...light flared inches from his right hand--the wand tip had ignited."  His intention was for light, and there was light.  And Potter saw that the lumos was good, and picked up his wand.
 
Witches and wizards seem to represent a cross-section of the world population with various ethnicities and cultures.  So, I would guess that a few of these witches and wizards are born Deaf.  Maybe these Deaf children go to wizarding schools of the Deaf where they learn sign (Latin Sign?) spells where voice, and therefore pronounciation, are no longer an issue.
 
-Kemper


		
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