Pronounce "Auror"

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No: HPFGUIDX 67163

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Madelyne X" <madelynx at y...> 
wrote:
> How does one pronounce this?
> 
> On an HP pronunciation site they said it like this: "Aaah Roar"
> 
> When JKR did her reading at Albert Hall, I was surprised
> to hear her call it: "Aura" or "ore aah"
> 
> How can one get "Aura" out of "Auror"?
> 
> ~M
> The Keeper of His Buttons
> http://www.firefancies.com/darkpotions/main.htm

The same way they get 'wuster' out of Worstershire or 'lester' out of 
Lestershire.  :)  It's a British thing-got something to do with the 
accent.  They complain because Americans can't say aluminium 
correctly (they're right BTW, if you look at it phonetically, it *is* 
al-yu-min-ee-um), but I suppose we all have our quirks.  
When I read it, I read it as 'Or-roar'  I can't remember how Dale 
says it on the tapes.