Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

[brinforest]

No: HPFGUIDX 45676

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "jastrangfeld" <msbonsai at m...> wrote:
> Do you think these words will be coming back to haunt us later in 
the 
> series?  Perhaps it is some sort of charm spell that continues to 
> help protect Harry?  Has this been discussed before?
> 
> Julie

Yay! Someone asking about the one thing I have my very own theory on!

I posted a long time ago that I think the words represent people 
(see Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs). And these four could be 
either the founders of Hogwarts, or, as I prefer, the "Marauders" of 
Dumbledore's youth, him being one. Clue? The way it's written. It 
isn't "Nitwit, Blubber, Oddment and Tweak!" because that way the 
secret would have been out straight after PoA. And why is he naming 
them, whoever they are? He's simply honouring them. He's either 
honouring the founders, or his own friends (or siblings.. who was it 
who came up with Algie and Arabella along with Aberforth being AD's 
siblings?) who may be either long since dead, or perhaps even 
alive... and the whole point is that nobody knows what it means! At 
Hogwarts, nobody else comes close to his age. He could be expressing 
out loud, but in a way that nobody is even meant to understand, that 
he was once a young boy, a Hogwarts student, and a prankster. 

Anyway, what I most expect is hearing the words from Dumbledore 
again, in a climactic battle scene, bellowed like thunder in a 
call for backup, either in the form of real live people... or the 
spiritual support of dear friends long gone.

Brin