More Wordplay and Names

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: More Wordplay and Names
Date: 8/9/00 2:54 am  (ET)

Inspired by Dogspoon, I tried to make an anagram of 'James Potter' and got
MAJE SPOTTER or MAJOR TEE SPOT. A Ma(g)e Spotter might be a useful talent,
but Major Tee Spot sounds like a crossword puzzle clue for a golf course.

In GoF, Mad-Eye Moody's real first name is Alastor. Not long ago,
I checked on-line dictionaries and found that

Alastor was originally a Greek god of vengeance (male equivalent
of Nemesis). To English writers (who had, as someone just mentioned,
studied Classics), the common noun 'an Alastor' meant a vengeful ghost,
then came to mean any spirit in the business of tormenting a person or
a family line. In that latter meaning, I believe we could refer to the
Dementors as Sirius's (and Harry's, and all the Azkaban prisoners')
Alastors. I'm sure that Moody the Auror liked to think of himself as
inexorable Vengeance, a male version of Nemesis or the Erinnyes.