[HPforGrownups] Weird Detail in O.W.L.S.

[Nguyen, Marc]

No: HPFGUIDX 68349

lb wrote:

Message: 2
   Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 04:17:15 -0000
   From: "lennyb2002" <lennyb2002 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Weird Detail in O.W.L.S.

Hello,

When Harry goes to take the History of Magic O.W.L, there's a detail 
that seems a little weird. p. 725, "It was several seconds before it 
occurred to him that he had not taken in a word of it; there was a 
wasp buzzing distractingly against one of the high windows."

Any entomologists out there? 

It seems like a weird place to mention a buzzing wasp inside of 
Hogwarts, especially considering Harry's behavior and the events 
during this exam. Perhaps this wasp is an animagus?

Out,
lb

Marc replys:

I came across an odd thing while looking though my copy of Magical and
Fantastic Beast. Someone probably spotted this millions of ages ago,
but...there is a "wasp-like bug" called the "drumbumble" I think(sp?) and
the odd thing is that the letters "BUM" were circled and no notes or
anything else appear. It caught my eye because I remember people on this
list suspect that Dumbledore may be a bumble bee animgus.

Marc