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How does all this exactingly correct pronunciation stuff interact with accents, speech impediments, having just been socked in the face, or otherwise having issues with getting exact sounds out?
For that matter, what do mute wizards and witches do? Do they just have to learn to cast everything nonverbally? Or can they cure muteness with magic such that it never comes up?
There's mention in the fifth book of canon that Neville gets a fat lip and is unable to pronounce spells in battle (he ends up just stabbing someone with his wand).
Wandless magic presumably.
(I vaguely recall mention of Eastern wizards relying on gestures and not wands/vocalization, but I'm not sure whether this is canon or fanfic.)
Have you read Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past? It mentioned the eastern wizards doing hand gestures thing, and I don't recall the canon books ever talking about that. So if you've read NoFP, you probably got the idea from there.
I did in fact read it after it was linked in the reviews for MoR (either here or on ff.net), so I guess that's where it came from! Well-spotted.
At this point, the precision seems to just be about duration of vowels. I don't know how Harry chose that test.
Afaik, spells don't have to be written in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
He was testing 16 different variants. The vowel duration was only the test we saw in full.