The Meaning of the Term "Put Outer"

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 36976

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "lupinesque" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Cindy writes:
> 
> > > >And why does JKR, a 
> > > master 
> > > > of inventing clever names like veritaserum and pensieve, 
resort 
> > to 
> > > a 
> > > > clunky name like Put-Outer?
> 
> I have always thought of "Put-Outer" as not the literal wizarding 
> world term for Dumbledore's device, but just the ww-ignorant 
> narrator's uncreative but descriptive term for what we're seeing.

I thought it was a clever name for one of those ww devices that 
does the reverse of what its muggleworld counterpart does. 
There's the Put-Outer, which looks and is operated like a Lighter 
but does the opposite, and  Hermione's Revealer in CoS which 
looks like and operates like an eraser. 

Pippin