[HPforGrownups] Re: Saying the Name Nitpick re Flyswatter spell

Margaret Dean margdean at erols.com
Thu Aug 9 02:55:27 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 23915

Haggridd wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., dfrankiswork at n... wrote:
> >
> > Snape: (Looks carefully round the room, takes out wand)
> > Coleopterasplat. (Wand turns into a fly swatter)
> >
> > At this point your correspondent remembered an urgent prior
> > engagement and had to leave this most interesting discussion.  

 
> Very humerous indeed, Dave, but my L.O.O.N.y impulses compel me to
> inform you that the Fly is of the order "Diptera", not "Coleoptera."

But of course.  "Coleoptera" are beetles.  ;)


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>




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