More Videos Author J. Rowling reveals 'Voldemort' pronunciation Story highlights J. Rowling says fans have been mispronouncing "Voldemort" The final "t" is silent, says the Harry Potter author. So says Harry Potter author J. Rowling -- which, incidentally, rhymes with "bowling" -- about the pronunciation of Lord Voldemort, the blockbuster series' creepy villain.
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Since portraying sharp witch Hermione in the "Harry Potter" series, Emma Watson has broken away from the supernatural with roles grounded in the mostly real world. Rupert Grint kept it fairly low-key after he ended his year run as one of Harry Potter's best friends, Ron Weasley. French aficionados of the child wizard saga added that they'd been pronouncing it correctly all along, highlighting that "Voldemort" means "flight of death" in their native tongue. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named unless correctly , even decide to weigh in on the debate himself, pointing to a tweet he'd sent back in Search Events Jobs Consulting.
In all the ones that followed after the beginning of the film franchise, Dale began to pronounce the villain's name with the ending "t" sound intact. At the end of the day, this isn't anything too earth-shattering, but I suppose it's nice to know the way J. Rowling always heard the character name in her head. And clearly Rowling wasn't upset with the reading of the name in this fashion or she would have informed producers of the film franchise before shooting began on the movie.
Thankfully, it's not much of a different pronunciation, and it's not nearly as annoying as the way some readers pronounced the name Hermione as "Her-me-own" before the movies and their friends corrected them this is something that I frequently encountered many years ago for some reason, but maybe I just needed new friends. In the entire run of the Harry Potter book series, Voldemort isn't even the most complicated name or fantasy word in the text.
And if you've ever had any problems knowing the correct pronunciation of any other names or words in the books, you can use this handy online pronunciation guide from Scholastic.
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