[HPforGrownups] Animagi - Pronunciation

[Paul Kippes]

No: HPFGUIDX 6392

At 10:48 PM 12/5/2000, Caius wrote:
>I'm working on another song, this time about the Animagi: how is the
>word pronounced? I assume the word ends with a "j" rather than a
>hard "g", and with a long "i" rather than a long "e" (as in Gift of
>the Magi)- but I could be wrong - how is it rendered in the
>audiotapes?

Although Scholastic has a pronunciation guide 
(http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/books/index.htm), their recordings 
of "Animagi" and "Animagus" are different than, say, JKR's.  It could be an 
accent thing.  But this is at least one way.