[HPforGrownups] Re: Lupin - How to pronounce it?

[Jake Storm]

No: HPFGUIDX 35809

>From: "lucky_kari" <lucky_kari at yahoo.ca>
>Being from
>this "lost French" background myself, I immediately pronounced the
>French-like names in HP as I would if I met the bearers in Canada.

You don't have be from a "lost French" background, or live in Canada, to 
make such a mistake. When I picked up Sorceror's Stone this past October and 
began to read, I got to the scene on the Hogwarts Express wherein Hermione 
is introduced and I paused briefly and determined that her name must be 
pronounced in the way the French would pronounce it: err-MYUHN 
(sorta...phonetic french isn't my forte). This, based on two years of 
highschool French, thirteen years ago. I then modified it to be Anglicised, 
to Her-me-OWN. I went like that until Hermione herself corrected me, in 
Goblet. Deep down, I still pronounce it a bit like Ron with a mouthful of 
Yorkshire pudding: Her-MY-knee, dropping the all-but-swallowed "oh" 
completely.

J

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