Wordplay in HP

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 18673

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., carissabradley at a... wrote:
> --- 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

Hi Carissa!  Technically, Tom's name is not a riddle, but an anagram. 
It certainly is wordplay, though.  I wonder how they will deal with it 
in the movie, because they changed the spelling, so that the anagram 
will not work.

Haggridd