Please, obliviate our transgressions, great and powerful J.K.!
So you know how He-who-shall-not-be-named is, like, one of the most iconic villains of all time?
Yeah… well, as it turn out, we’ve been saying one of Harry Potter‘s main character’s names wrong this whole time.
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When one fan tried to pass off the controversial info as a piece of Hogwarts trivia, J.K. Rowling herself confirmed the worldwide mistake, saying:
@Universe_Box One piece of Harry Potter trivia I always forget to mention: the “t” is silent in Voldemort, according to @jk_rowling.
— Michael Lucero (@mhenrylucero) September 9, 2015
… 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
We don’t know what’s real anymore…
While it makes sense that Voldemort would have a silent “t”, we don’t know if we’ll be able to change 18 years of saying it incorrectly.
Just go ahead and use Avada Kedavra on us now and put us out of our misery.
[Image via Lia Toby/Ivan Nikolov/WENN.]
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