[HPforGrownups] Lockhart's spells

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 4703

Steve Vander Ark wrote:

> It's from Calvin and Hobbes. That cardboard box Calvin uses to
> transform himself (in his imagination) into various creatures and
> later to create a whole bunch of duplicates of himself is called a
> Transmogrifier.

You know, it's probably because I have jillions of Calvin and Hobbes books
in my bathroom, that I didn't even consider the use of the word as unusual.
I'm betting more Americans have read Calvin and Hobbes, and know it from
there, than from that (to my reading) depressing poem, but I don't know
about JKR.

--Amanda, devoutly happy her kids haven't made a Transmogrifier Gun or
machine yet...