HP5 and Jim Dale

[mohuebner0 at lycos.de]

No: HPFGUIDX 12828

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer <pennylin at s...> 
wrote:

> JIM DALE -- I have not heard the Stephen Fry versions, but if he 
doesn't
> do different voices for the characters, I doubt I would enjoy them 
as
> much as I do the Jim Dale versions.

I have the Stephen Fry versions (books 1, 2 and 3, 4 is not yet out)
and he *does* do different voices for the characters. Maybe a bit
less pronounced than Jim Dale and less like in a radio show, but you
can clearly distinguish the voices of the different characters just
by listening. I have listened to the samples of the Jim Dale versions
at the Randomhouse website and decided that I liked them a lot less
than Stephen Fry, although I think they are quite good, too.

>  I also *hate* the
> voice he gave Sirius -- it's far too deep (as Carole said, he sounds
> like he's about 800 yrs old!). 

I don't know where they get this idea, but Stephen Fry does the
same! But even though I have listened to the chapters that relate
the events in the Shrieking Shack several times now, Sirius still has
the voice he always had in my head. 

But I love Fry's Hagrid and Snape, they totally match the voice I
imagined them to have. He does quite a good job with the children, 
too, and his Hermione is less annoying than Jim Dale's.

Monika