What a story, what a story, what a story. I hope the next one is as good as the previous ones. I’ve been very impressed with Jim Dale’s performance and the audiobooks as a whole for the HP series up to this point, but I unfortunately have to say this one took a BIG step backwards for me. Randomly throughout the story, there will be an extremely long unnecessary pause in between paragraphs that leads you to believe the app crashed or something. I don’t know if this particular audiobook was rushed or something, but the editing is very odd in places. It’s described as light and airy, but the voice he gives her sounds like that gruff uncle whose had too much to drink at the New Year’s Eve party. If you’re listening to all the books in order, it’s very jarring to hear everyone suddenly pronouncing the character’s name differently. It wouldn’t be a big deal if it wasn’t SO inconsistent from the other readings he’d done. But suddenly in this book Dale pronounces the T at the end VERY prominently. Rowling herein has said that’s how it’s pronounced.
For the previous 4 books, Dale has pronounced “Voldemort” with a silent “T” in a very French manner. But the audiobook made some strange choices with the recording and narration that really took me out of the story.
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