Wordplay in HP

[carissabradley at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 18664

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Haggridd" <jkusalavagemd at y...> wrote:
> > My favorite pun has not lasted byond PS, sadly.  It is he Inn 
where 
> Hagrid got his dragon egg, The Hogshead.  You have the Head of a 
Hog, 
> naturally, and the carrying forth of the Hog theme of Hogsmeade, 
but 
> you also have the delicious fact that a hogshead is a big keg of 
ale 
> equal in measure to that of three barrels.  I was so disappointed
> when JKR used The Three Broomsticks in later books.  Does anybody 
else
> have a favorite pun?
> 
> Haggridd


Hi everyone - I'm new to the list and to HP.  I've read all of the 
books only in the last 3 weeks.  One of my favorite things about the 
books is JKR's writing and how everything is basically revealed to us 
but we are still suprised when we find out what was really going on.  
I hope you all do not think I am a simpleton, but my favorite play on 
words is the most probably obvious in all of the books.  It is how 
Tom Marvolo Riddle's name is actually a riddle - rearrange the words 
and you get, of course "I am Lord Voldemort."  Should've known.  Who 
would name thier child Marvolo. :)

Carissa