[HPforGrownups] Re: pronunciations

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 6814

Susan McGee wrote:

> Jim Dale says "Voldemor" (silent t)
> Stephen Fry says "VoldemorT" (sounds the t)
>
> I will always think of him as Voldemor (silent t), because I assumed
> that there was a play on words and that it referenced the French word
> for death

But there's a bunch of "mort-" words in English having to do with death:
mortician, mortuary, Morticia (for you Addams fans), etc., that I still got
the strong connection even pronouncing the /t/. I thought it was a reference
back to the (Latin?) root that English and French both drew on. I might have
gone with a silent /t/, except that there was no other even remotely French
word in there at all. Until the tournament.

--Amanda