[HPforGrownups] Re: Mimble Wimble

[Carolina]

No: HPFGUIDX 90308


Carol observed: 
> Second, the "mimble wimble" scene occurs nine pages before the 
> attempt
> to turn Dudley into a pig. 

and LizVega replied: 
<Nine pages, right. But, Carol, act it out. How long does nine pages 
<actually take to act out? Maybe, a few minutes? How much dialogue is 
<there in those nine pages? I think we can both agree that speaking 
<nine pages worth of dialogue/text would only take a few minutes in 
<real time. 


Thanks again to Geoff for providing this useful quote:

[Start quote]
"But Hagrid simply waved his hand and said, 'About our world, I mean. 
your world. My world. Yer parents' world.'
'What world?'
HAgrid looked as if he was about to explod.
'DURSLEY', he boomed.
Uncle Vernon, who had gone very pale, whispered something that 
sounded like 'Mimblewimble'."

(PS "The Keeper of the Keys" p.41 UK edition)

[End  quote]

I don't think that nine pages are brief to read, I don't think it is related 
to Dudley's pigtail, but IMO that's an uncalled memory as a panic reaction. A  
whispered 'mimble wimble' sounds to me as a young boy who is learning to 
speak and copies bad the adult's speeches. It may be a spell he heard once 
(our 'funny' James can be related to this) but striked him more than he had 
tough.

Any way, I think it's something that he had not heard /thinked  in years, that 
came out as a result of a stress situation ('DURSLEY', he boomed).  

'MimbleWimble','BraCadabra','WadiWasi'. They sound alike to me, but actually 
waddiwasi, as ridiculous as it may sound, is a spell (PA7).

--whispered something that 
sounded like 'Mimblewimble'.--

If Mimble Wimble is a composed spell (we have lots including the reparo and 
accio families) 'mimble' can *sound like* 'mobili'. Allowing a little 
corruption, of course, as in 'bracadabra', but we all would catch that spell, 
wouldn't we?

Silmariel