Bella's accent

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, theotokos 
<theotokos_8679 at s...> wrote:

 
> I wasn't sure if this question was apropos for the main list.  My 
question refers to the audio books.  I have the Jim Dale version.  
He has Bellatrix speaking in a very nerve-grating French (I think) 
accent.  I always wondered if there is a textual reason for this 
that I missed.  For those that have the BBritishversion of the 
audios, how does he (I forget his name) read Bellatrix?  BTW, I 
cringe every time he speaks in what is meant to be Bellatrix's baby 
voice.  How does the other guy do it?


The other guy (Stephen Fry), does not use the very annoying French 
accent.  In fact, it makes no sense whatsoever for Dale to have used 
the accent in OOP because I don't think he used it for Bellatrix in 
GoF.  I can't double-check my Jim Dale GoF cds (I've loaned them 
out), but I was so bothered by it in OOP, I'm sure I'd have 
remembered it in the earlier book.

This is one more reason that I think I'll wait to get Fry's version 
of HBP, rather than get Dale's right away, be frustrated with it and 
end up ordering the UK one on Amazon.

JMHO

Jo S.