I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve listened to Stephen Fry’s narration of the Harry Potter series. His voice has accompanied me on several road trips, helped me drift off to sleep countless times and kept my nerves at bay during anxious periods. It’s the only audiobook I’ve listened to that somehow feels both novel and oh-so-familiar each time I hear it.

So when I discovered that Audible, along with Pottermore Publishing, was recording an entirely new star-studded Harry Potter series , I was dubious. What could be better than Fry’s gruff Hagrid impersonation, or his impish Dobby voice? Why fix what isn’t broken?

More than 1.8 billion hours of Fry’s audiobooks , along with Jim Dale’s narration of the United States’ English version of J.K. Rowling’s series, have been listened t

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