Harry Potter - the full-cast Audible edition

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Has anyone started this yet? The first book was just released today.

I'm only a couple of chapters in, and I really want to love it, but I'm not blown away so far. The narrator is good; I do like her voice - it's a nice and soothing voice. I really like the cast voices, but their voices are too quiet and sometimes quite tinny sounding. The sound effects can be really distracting, and too loud - it's quite hard to hear the cast voices over them. I'm hoping it improves!

Haven’t started this one yet. Gone back and working my way back through OOP.

I tend to see the film characters in my head. Except Dumbledore. Then I just see Lord Percy.

That did make me laugh thank you!

I realise it is a 'me' issue. The production team were obviously happy with his whine, maybe others don't hear it, maybe Harry is meant to be unlikeable - but that certainly isn't how Stephen Fry portrayed Harry, or how Dumbledoor describes him.

Finished! I really enjoyed it, and some of the scenes were so much more emotional than they were in the Stephen Fry versions due to the full cast. The Dobby scene, Snape's pensieve memories, Harry and Dumbledore at Kings Cross, the grief when people thought Harry was dead.

I kind-of get what PP means about Harry's voice. It's less a whine to me, and more an arsey/frustrated tone. It was particularly noticeable when he was having conversations with Ron and Hermione, and they had a nice and pleasant tone but Harry always seemed to sound stroppy. I decided to let him off because he had the pressure of defeating Voldemort to deal with, and like a PP said, I imagine he'd much rather have been trying to get his leg over.

I'll enjoy going back and listening to them all back to back at some point.

Thanks everyone for your company over the last 6 months or so!

I’ve just listened to the chapter where Harry walks to (what he thinks will be) his death. I hadn’t really appreciated before how beautifully written it is- Cush Jumbo’s gorgeous soft voice really emphasises the quality of the writing.