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⌈ Secret Post #5603 ⌋

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Random HP Musing

[(Anonymous)]

Had a really random thought and wanted to share - considering how closed off most of the pureblood members of the Wizarding World are --- why do they have modern accents?

Statute of Wizarding Secrecy is suppose to be form the 1600s and the standard British accent started changing in the 1800s.

So I would honestly believe purebloods would have their own unique accent that has had a little influence from incoming muggleborns and half-bloods.

Re: Random HP Musing

[philstar22]

That's interesting. Actually, come to think of it, since Pureblood wizards are more likely to associate with other pureblood wizards of other cultures than to muggles, I think they'd probably have their own accents that were more similar to each other than to muggles of their own country.

Then again, they do associate to a certain extent with muggleborns and half-bloods who are more likely to have accents closer to muggle ones.

Re: Random HP Musing

[tabaqui]

How fun would that be? I like the thought. :D

Re: Random HP Musing

[(Anonymous)]

well, Doylistly, worldbuilding in Harry Potter is basically an artifice for creating a secret world that reproduces the aesthetics and social dynamics of rural Britain circa 1900-1960, but in the 1990s and with added magical whimsy, and in that context pureblood wizards represent more or less just aristocrats and the rural gentry and middle class, so having them be marked by a wildly archaic accent wouldn't fit with that. In Watsonian terms, it is impossible to come up with a Watsonian justification for any of the worldbuilding in Harry Potter.

Re: Random HP Musing

[(Anonymous)]

A Watsonian explanation would be that since Wizarding Britain never achieved complete isolation, refusing to at least partially adapt their accents to modern standards would have drawn unwanted attention to their conclaves. As a result, there is either a wide-spread spell on the Wizarding community to keep their accents within 50 years of Muggle standard, or a concerted effort from Wizarding educators to conform to modern English.

The Doylist explanation is that JKR didn't think about it that hard.

As a personal aside, I'm glad they didn't have their own accent, because an entire series written in JKR's phonetic accent writing would have been nine kinds of brutal.

Re: Random HP Musing

[(Anonymous)]

This is a fun idea, anon! Thank you for sharing it! (Not sarcasm, in case that wasn't clear. :P)