Etymology was: More Snaping

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JKR has said this herself-- but her way of talking about it implied 
that she saw this as positive. A bumblebee who was always busy. She 
said, I think, that she imagined Dumbledore as often humming to 
himself as he thought about things.

--Suzanne


--- In HPforGrownups at y...,   <morgan_793 at y...> wrote:
>  --- Tabouli <tabouli at u...> wrote concerning
> someone else's post which said: 
> 
> "The word Dumbledore sounds like a
> > contortion of 'bumblebee'
> 
> (objections snipped)
> 
> Actually, this idea is not as ill-formed as you seem
> to think.  Dumbledore *is* extremely close to the Old
> English word for bumblebee, oddly enough. The
> etymology might be intuitive, but it's nigh well spot
> on. 
> 
> Oh, and by the way: hello, I'm new.
> 
> Regards,
> Morgan
> meddling medievalist
> 
> 
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