Pronunciation of Voldemort

[Shirley]

No: HPFGUIDX 75310


 Buttercup:
 Is the "t" in Voldemort silent?
 
 Dan:
 Yep! It's pronounced VOL-duh-more if you want to be all French 
 about it. Seems that in the films it's said all Englishy (ooo! an 
 adjective!)-- VOL-duh-mort, with a hard "t." Either, I think, is 
 perfectly valid.

 Steve:
 Rowling does not pronounce the T, I know. [snip]
 Even Jim Dale, who 
 said VOL-duh-more in the audio versions of books 1-4, started 
 pronouncing the T for book 5. Why oh why?

me:  
I remember noticing that in the tape for book 5, also.  Additionally, 
Jim Dale pronounced "Firenze" differently in book 5 than in book 1.  
(We have all 5 audiotapes; when my daughter was younger, they held 
her interest much better than reading the books; and they're great 
for long car trips! :))  In the first book's tape, he pronounced it 
with two syllables: fir-ENZ (which also happens to be the way Hagrid 
pronounces it in the first movie, not that that's canon); but in book 
5, he says it with three syllables: fir-EN-zee.  Personally, I don't 
like the 3-syllable version; it sounds uneducated, for lack of a 
better way to say that....

Shirley