Accents

[hert0661 at yahoo.com]

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No: HPFGUIDX C1884
From: hert0661
Subject: Re: Accents
Reply To: [Yahoo! #1882] Accents
Date: 6/12/00 3:13 am  (ET)

<The Weasleys, a bit like Hagrid, are from a non-Muggle environment, so I
give them nondescript, downmarket accents - possibly West Country/Welsh,
though.

The Dursleys are dead common - nouveau riche, I'd say: Londoners who
moved to Surrey and try to behave like suburban snobs...

Hermione is posh, middle-class (with a name like that, she's not going
to have a Brum accent - that's from Birmingham for those scratching
their heads)>

Hermione from middle england - Oxfordshire, Berkshire type of place,
or maybe anywhere else but living out in a posh part of a large town.

Weasleys - from near a large industrial city such as Manchester was my
thought but then not mixing with the locals much nd so noy picking up
much of an accent.

Simon