Twitter queen and author extraordinaire J.K. Rowling has confirmed (for the second time in her lifetime) that everyone has been saying Voldemort's name wrong.
After all this time? Always.
Rowling has taken to the microblogging platform to respond to a fan who says she heard the author once say that Voldemort's name should be pronounced with a silent t, like camembert cheese. That's right, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is actually He-Who-Must-Be-Called-Voldemor.
... but I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who pronounces it that way. https://t.co/HxhJ5XY5HP
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 9, 2015
And as with all things in the magical world Rowling created for us, there is an explanation for how you say the Dark Lord's name. Voldemort is actually a French phrase (vol de mort) that means "theft of death." The French word 'mort' means death, and it is pronounced with a silent t.
The name refers to the fact that Voldy was able to escape death by splitting his soul into seven pieces and putting them inside the Horcruxes.
In 1999, just two years after the release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Yes, you're that old), Rowling confirmed to a fan during a book signing in Irvine, Orange County that she says Voldemort's name without the t.
Rowling is known to drop bombs on Twitter about the wildly popular wizarding world of Harry Potter. Just last week, she announced that James Sirius Potter, Harry's eldest son, had just started at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and have been sorted into Gryffindor, to nobody's surprise, but to the disappointment of his friend, Teddy Lupin, son of the late Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks.
Meanwhile, Bloomsberry, the publisher of the Harry Potter novels in the United Kingdom, has released a few teaser images showing off what fans can expect from the upcoming illustrated edition of the books.
The illustrations were made by artist Jim Kay and the illustrated editions are expected to hit the shelves on Oct. 6.
"To be given the opportunity to design the characters, the clothing, the architecture and landscape to possibly the most expansive fantasy world in children's literature, well, let's just say I'm extremely excited about it," Kay says. "The story is everything and so I want to bring what I can to really show the depth of Rowling's stories to their best."
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