PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

• Animagi = Ani-MAY-ji ( ji like in "jive")
• Animagus = Ani-MAY-jus (jus like in "just")
• Aragog = AIR-a-gog
• Auror = OR-er
• Azkaban = AZ-ka-ban
  
  
• basilisk = BAS-il-isk
• Beauxbatons = BO-ba-tonz (silent x)
• bogies = BO-gies (hard g)
  
  
• Cho = Cho (long o) as in the word Show
• Cornelius = cor-NEEL-ee-us
• crocheted = crow-SHAYED
  
  
• Daedalus Diggle = DEED-a-lus DIG-gle
• Diagon Alley = DI-agun Alley
• Dobby = DAUB-ee
• Draco Malfoy = DRAY-co MAL-foy
  
  
• en suite = ON sweet
• Erised = AIR-i-sed
• Errol = AIR-il
• Eyelops = Eye-lops
  
  
• Fawkes = Fox or Forks (depends on what part of England you are from)
• Firenze = Fear-ENZ
• Flamel = Fla-MEL, Nicholas
  
  
• gateau = ga-TOE
• Ginny = JIN-nee (shortened name of Ginevra.)
• gnomes = nomes
• Gryffindor = GRIFF-in-door
  
  
• Hagrid = HAG-rid
• Hermes = HER mees
• Hermione = Her-MY-oh-nee or Her-My-knee
  
  
• knuts = nuts (British) or K'noots (American)
• Lucius Malfoy = LOO-cius or LOO-shus MAL-foy
  
  
• McGonagall = ma-GONE-a-gull
• Madam Malkin = Madam MAL-kin
• mauve = Mowve (same purple color)
• Majorca = Ma-YOR-ka (Spanish resort)
• Mirror of Erised = Mirror of AIR-i-sed
• Muggles = MUG-els
  
  
• Neville = NEV-ill
  
  
• Oy! or Oi! = OI! as in BOY! (means Hey You!)
  
  
• Patronus = Pa-TRONE-us
• pasty = PAST-ee (short "a" like in FAST)
• Penelope = pe-NEL-o-pea
• Pomfrey = POM-free
• Privet Drive = PRi-vet (short "i" like in TRIVET)
  
  
• Quidditch = KWID-itch
  
  
• Rubeus = ROO-bee-us
• row = rao rhymes with "cow"
  
  
• Seamus Finnigan = SHAY-mus FIN-i-gan
• Scabbers = SCAB-ers (short a sound)
• Sirius Black = SEAR-ee-ous or SIGH-russ Black
• Slytherin = SLiTH-er-in (short i sounds)
  
  
• traipsed = TRAYpst
  
  
• Voldemort = VOLE-de-mort The French words: Vol = flight; mort = dead, which would mean this name translates as "Flight of Death" (Thank-you Prof. Dunbavand!) In France, one would not pronounce the "t" at the end.
  
  
• Whinging = WIN-jing