Voldemort has a cruel gift for play on words (was Re: My favorite bit of foreshadowing

[coriolan_cmc2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 36893

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Betty <landers at e...> wrote:
> Zoe Hooch: 	
> 
>   Has anyone else got examples of Voldemort's irony?
> 
>From Chap. 1 of GoF:

Wormtail muttered something so quietly that Frank could not hear it, 
but it made the second man laugh -- an entirely mirthless laugh, cold 
as his speech.
	"We could have modified her *memory*?  But Memory Charms can 
be broken by a powerful wizard, as I proved when I questioned her.  
It would be an insult to her *memory* not to use the information I 
extracted from her, Wormtail."

   - CMC