Harry's Schoolmates (J & V)

Wiizurii could also be romanised as Wiizurii.

The Vietnamese translator routinely transliterates 'w' as 'g' in the pronunciation footnotes. The Vietnamese 'g' is a more guttural sound than English 'g', somewhat resembling a French uvular 'r'.

'Granger' becomes Gurenjā, not Gureinjā in Japanese. This conforms with the Japanese treatment of words such as 'ranger' and 'stranger'.

The Vietnamese pronunciation is somewhat removed from the original English. Is it any coincidence that 'mi-nhon' sounds like French mignon ('sweet, darling')?

The Japanese gives 'Cho Chang' in katakana, standard for foreign names. In Japanese, even the names of nisei (ethic Japanese born and raised in foreign countries) are written in katakana. A name may only be written in kanji (Chinese characters) if it has been officially registered at birth with the local government in Japan or if the person comes from a jurisdiction that officially uses Chinese characters (such as China). If not, the name is like any other foreign name - a sound only, without any characters.

There is only one clue that the Japanese translator regards 'Cho Chang' as a Chinese name: she transliterates 'Chang' as チャン Chan rather than チャング Changu. Normally an extra グ gu is added if there is a 'g' in English - the singer 'Sting', for example, becomes スティング Sutingu. No グ gu is added for Chinese names.

The Vietnamese translator does not give a phonetic transliteration for Cho Chang.