Thicknesse: Question on Pronunciation

[Annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> > Geoff:
> > I think this is another of JKR's marvellous wordplays - in the 
Diagon 
> > Alley/Umbridge/Disillusion tradition.
> > 
> > I would see Pius Thicknesse = pious thickness which would give 
two 
> > syllables to his surname.
> > 
> > My dictionary gives a second meaning to "pious" which is "making 
a 
> > hypocritical display of virtue". It immediately made me think of 
> > Charles Dickens' Uriah Heep who was a singularly unpleasant 
> > character. Thickness(e) speaks for itself. :-)
> >
> 
> Tonks_op
> I thought of it as a way of putting down the Roman Catholic church 
and 
> the methods of government in the church. Pius being a name often 
> associated with one of the Popes.
> 
> Tonks_op
>


Well, she meant to put down *somebody* (probably meant Pius = pious, 
and not popes in particular), but I can't help thinking it applies 
just as well to herself since I've read DH.

Annemehr