Hagrid's dialect

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No: HPFGUIDX C5068
From: johnwaltonspages
Subject: Re: Hagrid's dialect
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5067] Re: Hagrid's dialect
Date: 7/25/00 6:39 pm  (ET)

Well, having gone to school in the West Country (Devon and Somerset
particularly), and since we have our UK home in Cornwall, I firmly
believe that Hagrid has a West Country accent for the following reasons:

1) Both Jim Dale (US version) and Stephen Fry (UK version) use a West
Country accent in their readings. Which leads me onto...

2) It fits perfectly. Furthermore...

3) JKR went to university at Exeter, in mid-Devon. As such, she'd have
had many an opportunity to hear the accent. And it is such a luvverly
accent, moy deeerrr.

--John, the New Yorker with a British (but not usually West Country)
accent.