Anybody know the accent?


Love the show, but I can't seem to understand what accent young Marlow has. Can anybody shed some light on it?

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It's the accent from the Forest of Dean area, near the Welsh Border. That's where Potter grew up and many of his plays are set there (at least partially).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_of_dean

As a yank, I found that the subtitles helped a lot in figuring out the accent. Once you get an idea of the idioms actually are ("Thou bist", etc...), you can start figuring out what they're saying.

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Thanks a lot, that was really helpful.

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