The Creation of the Term "Put Outer"

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

No: HPFGUIDX 37013

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Jennifer Boggess Ramon <boggles at e...> 
wrote:
 
> Oh, dear.  Am I the _only_ one who was delightfully tickled by the 
> play on "lighter"?  :(

I didn't find it to be a delightful play on 'lighter'. Perhaps I 
would have done if it had been named 'darker'. Perhaps I would have 
done if I were able to stop pronouncing Put-Outer as Putter-Out.

But someone on this list ingeniously suggested that the name has a 
double meaning, 'put out' as in 'put out the lights' and 'put out' as 
in 'put out the hors d'ouevres', and what it puts out in the latter 
sense are those orange glows that have been suggested to be spells 
guarding or watching Harry.