JKR's play on words, other than the spells/charms

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 13482

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Doreen" <nera at r...> wrote:
> I just love JKR's play on words. The ones in the spells/charms are
> more obvious. (snip)I also noticed this in "Gringotts" "gold
> ingots". I know there are more. Has this been discussed before?

Yes, the words are one of the things that people love about HP. 
Someone said that GRINGOTTS is STTORINGG (it also contains I GOT, 
altho' I don't think she intended GRINGO). PENSIEVE is pensive 
(thoughtful) plus seive (colander), and I think it was Flying Ford 
Anglia who said it's IN PEEVES and suggested that this is a hint that 
Peeves is Dumbledore's dissociated id. REMEMBRALL is Remember All
plus Remember Ball.

I mostly pay attention to the names. Remus Lupin is a werewolf. 
'Lupin' comes from the Latin word 'lupus' which means 'wolf' and 
became English adjective 'lupine'. Remus and his brother Romulus 
(the founders of Rome) were abandoned at birth by their mother and 
adopted by a wolf bitch. Sirius is the Dog Star and Sirius Black 
turns into a big black dog. I noticed the 'black' but had been 
thinking that 'sirius' referred to something celestial rather than 
something canine. The name of the star Sirius is Greek for 'scorcher' 
and Sirius is Really Hot. Someone pointed out that Peter Pettigrew's 
names both mean 'to become smaller'. Peter as in 'peter out' and 
petti-grew as in 'to grow petty'. 

List member ellimist created a web site with dictionaries of HP 
character names, but I don't seem able to find that site just now.