JKR's cleverness

[Sam Brown]

No: HPFGUIDX 1474

Well, the subject line sort of points out a very obvious fact about 
JKR, but I'm referring to her cleverness regarding the smaller 
details, or to be more specific, the titles of Harry's school books.

Just in the past week I've reread PS/SS and PoA (skipping CoS because 
my younger brother is reading it) and one of the details I picked up 
was the references in the names of Harry's schoolbooks. From PS/SS:

'A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration' by Emeric Switch... switch is 
of course an early clue to the nature of transfiguration!
'One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi' by Phyllida Spore... spores 
being an integral part of fungi!
(i don't know about you, but little 'quirks' like this bring me 
endless delight!)
There are more, but my favourite by far is 'Unfogging the Future' by 
Cassandra Vablatsky, Cassandra being a soothsayer of classical 
mythology. 

Unfortunately in GoF there were no books mentioned (except for the 
next installment of 'the Standard Book of Spells' by Miranda 
Goshawk), but I look forward to what JKR will delight us (well, me at 
least!) with in HP#5.