Bellatrix's 'French' accent on the Audio tape/cd

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 97290

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mandy" <rredordead at a...> wrote:
I understand that Jim Dale gives Bellatrix Lestrange a French accent 
on the Audio recordings in America. ...If Jim made the acting choice 
to give her a French accent based on her last name being Lestrange, 
don't you think that he and his producers would have read the whole 
book first, and found out that was a married name and she was 
actually a Black sister?...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

When we meet Bellatrix in GoF, we are given *no* information about 
her background. It's a shock to find out in OoP that she's related to 
blonde Narcissa, nonexistent Andromeda and Gryffindor Sirius.

I've never heard either recording, but as I read GoF, I "heard" a 
foreign accent. Maybe she's like Kathleen Turner or Madonna (both 
American women who have affected bewildering Continental accents.)

--JDR