Was JKR a Louie Armstrong Fan?

[Caius Marcius]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dudemom_2000" 
<dudemom_2000 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Iggy McSnurd" 
> <CoyotesChild at c...> wrote:
> > (I think YahooMort AK'd this one the first time I tried to send it
> > in...)
> > 
> > 
> > Iggy here:
> > 
> > I was looking up more jazz, and I found a song by Louis Armstrong 
> called
> > "Muggles."  (Which, incidentally, was a term during the 1920's 
and 
> such
> > for Marijuana...)  I'd post the lyrics here, but apparently it's a
> > completely instrumental number, so...
>
There was once speculation offered in these spaces to the effect that 
JKR might have been a Hanna-Barbera fan in her youth - in 
one "Huckleberry Hound" episode, the titular hero, in the role of a 
mailman, makes repeated attempts to deliver a letter addressed to 
a "Mr. Muggles," but is blocked at every turn by a watchdog with 
sharp teeth and an annoying laugh.  When Huck finally gets the letter 
through, it turns out that a) the letter is a singing happy birthday 
card and b) the addressee of the letter is none other than the 
watchdog himself. The cartoon ends (SPOILER ALERT!) with Huck 
singing "Happy Birthday to You" to Mr. Muggles, whose teeth are 
clamped to Huck's left arm.

This would explain JKR's obsession with characters whose name begins 
with "H"

This earlier discussion also bought up rememberances of Huck's 
favorite song, which was promptly filked by Pippin:

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/voldemort/voldemort.htm#My_Master,_You-
Know-Who

   - CMC