Dear Mr Stroud,

Firstly, thank you for answering my previous question. I agree with most of what you said; but some questions need to ba asked anyway :D
This time my question is simpler:

What do you think Bartimeus would sound like?

I've been thinking about this and personally I believe either he would sound strange, maybe an archaic dialect he picked up over the ages, or his accent would change constantly to match the people he talked toor talked as. He might also talk in an accent unlike any other, a strange mixture of accents from many different lands. Of course, he might also just talk in Ptolemy's voice, cause he likes Ptolemy so much. Whats more important is what you think(Someone will have to voice him in the upcoming film :D )

Thanks for the time, and more importantly the books,
Verroq

Hi Verroq,

Hmmm, difficult one. For me, Bart really IS his voice, as it's the only constant thing about him. Everything else - his shape, his sex, his surroundings - varies wildly. I hear him in my head pretty much in my own voice, so this I think means that he probably adapts his accent to whatever epoch he's in: when in London, speaking English to Nat, he'll have some kind of English accent, when in Ancient Egypt, it would have been a familiar (to Ptolemy) courtly Pharonic one. Unless he's being irritating, in which case he'll quickly put on all kinds of varieties - silly voices, patronising twangs, things guaranteed to make a magician's toes curl. In the movie your guess is as good as mine. An English accent? An American one? Who can tell... but it'll be a difficult choice.

All the best,

Jonathan