Neville's broken nose

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86005

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erinellii" <erinellii at y...> wrote:
> 
> > Sylvia wrote:
> >  > Neville's broken nose had the effect of making him mis-pronounce 
> his words, the spell coming out as "Stubefy!" It was thus 
> ineffective. If a wizard had a natural speech defect, a lisp, for 
> example, or an inability to pronounce the letter "r", would this also 
> affect his ability to cast spells? > 
> 
> > Angel added:
> > There's two interesting points to add to this. The first is in 
> > Flitwick's first lesson, where he cautions that students should 
> > pronounce things properly, citing a wizard that didn't. The second 
> is  the spell that Dolohov uses on Hermione, wordlessly. These two 
> instances seem to be slightly contradictory.
> > Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Erin:
> No ideas, just another question:  What about foriegn wizards with 
> accents like Fleur and Victor Krum?  Surely they pronounce spells 
> differently from the English wizards?  
> 
> Erin

Maybe that's why most of the spells are in Latin (or something like
it) so that accents don't matter? Or zeir vands understand zeir speech
because zey are French, too? (Trying to sound like Fleur without the
book open--hope I'm not too far off and haven't offended anybody.)

Carol