Potter pronunciation WAS:Re: Etymology of "Occlumency" and "Legilimency"

[Eddie]

No: HPFGUIDX 160805

> Carol responds:
> No need to cringe. My high school Latin teacher would have had us
> pronounce "accio" (an actual Latin verb meaning "to summon") with two
> hard C's, exactly as Dan Radcliffe does in the GoF film. 

Eddie:
I think there was a change in thinking around the turn of the century
(19th to 20th) of how 'C' should be pronounced in Latin.  My knowledge
comes from James Hilton's "Goodbye Mr. Chips", where Professor
Chipping says, "Well, I admit that I don't agree with the new
pronunciation. I never did. A lot of nonsense, in my opinion.  Making
boys say 'Kickero' at school when for the rest of their lives they'll
say 'Cicero'-- if they ever say it at all.  And instead of
'vicissim'-God bless my soul-you'd make them say, 'We kiss'im!"

See http://www.memoriapress.com/articles/chips.html

Question is, is JKRowling of the "new pronunciation" school or the
older-fashion "Mr. Chips" school?

Eddie, who was trained as a musician and therefore pronounces "accio"
in the Italian style, similar to "accellerando": ACH-ee-oh, and who
pronounces it as ASS-ee-oh when he is looking for something humorous
to fit at the end of "Pain in the ...."