Wizard Baruffio and the Wingardium Leviosa Charm

[snuffles]

No: HPFGUIDX 241

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Neil Ward <neilward at d...> wrote:
> At 12:05 08/26/2000 -0000, you wrote:
> >Hallo everyone and loverly to met you all, now, down to bussness, 
can 
> >anyone explain the joke in the wl charm - i've puzziling how 
Wizard 
> >Baruffio finishes up with a Buffalo on his chest when there is 
no "f" 
> >in Wingardiun Leviosa to misspronounce as a "s".
> >So how come ? [HP1 page 126 UK Ed]
> >
> >This has probably been discussed a number oftimes, just that I 
> >haven't come across it.
> >
> >would love to know.
> 
> I think Flitwick was stressing that "saying magic words" correctly 
is
> important in general.  The reference to Baruffio was an 
illustration of a
> small mistake that had had unexpected results, but he must, 
logically, have
> been casting something other than the Wingardium Leviosa spell.     
> 
> Neil
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>             Flying-Ford-Anglia
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> 
>    "Then, dented, scratched and steaming, 
>    the car rumbled off into the darkness, 
>    its rear lights blazing angrily"
> 
>  [Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]
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thanks Neil, hadn't thought of that, a sadly prosaic, but likely, 
explination