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Voldemort’s ‘T’ is silent and 10 other things we all get wrong about Harry Potter

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Film: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), starring Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort.
‘Stop getting my name wrong!’ (Picture: Warner Bros)

JK Rowling gently scolded Harry Potter fans today, telling them off for mispronouncing the name of his nemesis, Lord Voldemort.

While most of us – and most of the characters in the film, in our defence – say the dark lord’s name with a hard ‘T’ sound at the end, Rowling had other plans when she created him.

The menacing moniker should have been pronounced with a silent ‘T’, like the French word for death, ‘mort’, when talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named-But-This-Is-A-Blog-Post-About-His-Name-Dammit.

MORE: JK Rowling wants you to know that you’ve been pronouncing Voldemort’s name all wrong

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