Huckleberry Hound Meets Mister Muggles

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 22705

Caius Marcius wrote:

> We all know that there is a certain author out there who claims that 
> the entire HP narrative was plagarized from her by JKR because she 
> supposedly was the first to use the term "Muggles." 
> 
> For no discernable reason, I had a flashback the other day to a 
> cartoon I viewed on several occasions during my childhood.  
> Unfortunately, an extensive Web search shows that the Net has yet to 
> evolve to the state that it includes a plot synopsis of all the 
Hanna-
> Barbera cartoon episodes.  

I should know better than to open any post from CMC at 7:15 a.m.  It's 
dangerous to laugh this hard this early in the morning before my lungs 
have had a chance to stretch.

> In this particular 
> vignette, Mr. Hound took on the role of a mail carrier entrusted to 
> deliver a vital message to one Mr. Muggles.  However, a militant 
> watch dog (the cartoon fails to address why some canines have become 
> gifted with upright posture and articulate speech while others 
remain 
> mired in mere mutt-hood) thwarts HH's every attempt to deliver the 
> letter.  At the end, we learn that Mr. Muggles and the fierce 
> watchdog are one and the same, and that the message is a singing 
> telegram wishing Mr. M a happy birthday.

AHA!  This is =obviously= where JKR got her infamous singing telegram 
sequence.

I also have to wonder whether HH is the origin of JKR's heretofore 
inexplicable attraction to the letter H:  Hagrid, Harry, Hermione, 
Hedwig, Hogwarts/Hogsmeade/Hog's Head.  Could they all be a tribute, 
conscious or un-, to the Hound?

You really should send the Muggles reference to 
www.harrypotterfans.net.  They have a "Muggle sightings" page 
documenting the many occurrences of this word, which 
She-Who-Names-Others-in-Lawsuits managed to invent before she was 
born so that Louis Armstrong could use it, and the last I saw it 
(months ago), this one wasn't on it.

> Might JKR and She-Who-I-Won't-Bother-Looking-Up-So-I-Can-Name-Her 
> have both derived the name Muggles from this Huckleberry Hound 
> cartoon? Does anyone sing "My Darling Clementine" in either of their 
> narratives?

Please, please, please write a filk on "My Darling Clementine"!  
"Pettigrew" or "Dumbledore" would scan well.  So would "lycanthrope."

Amy Z
suffering from horrible images of a Harry Potter cartoon series, even 
if WB *is* the best animation studio in the history of the craft

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 "This is the weirdest thing we've ever
 done," Harry said fervently.
       --HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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