Sirius, Voldemort, and Firenze pronunciations

[linlou43]

No: HPFGUIDX 75387


 Hi all.

        Just back from two weeks vacation and I am not even going to 
attempt to catch up on all the posts but I made it through the last 
couple hundred and I thought I would put in my two cents before I 
called it a night.

         According to the pronunciation guide on scholastic's 
website the pronunciations for the characters in questions are as 
follows: Sirius is pronounced the same as serious, the same as the 
star. Firenze is Feer-EN-zee. The guide does not give Voldemort. It 
just uses "he-who-must-not-be-named". I actually just listened to 
books one and two while on vacation these last two weeks for the 
first time. (Jim Dale) Previously, I had only read them. It struck 
me as stange to not hear the T pronounced in Voldemort because if I 
didn't already know it was there there would be a letter missing for 
Tom Marvolo Riddle at the end of COS. For those of you who heard the 
books before you read them, was this an issue for you? Just 
wondering.

 -linlou, who really must go to bed now