Intentionally misspelled names

[mtwelovett]

No: HPFGUIDX 70950

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ersatz Harry"
<ersatzharry at y...> wrote:
> A few of JKR's intentionally misspelled names have been hovering
> around my head for a couple of days.  By these I mean names that sound
> just like a word that more or less describe the person or thing named,
> but that are spelled differently.  <snip>

> (3) Grimmauld Place (for "grim old place", which it is)


I'm in the process of RE-reading OOP and I keep looking at Grimmauld
Place also as GRIMM the dog that Harry kept mistaking Sirius for in
PoA.. and in hindsight am wondering if that was a forshadowing "clue"
as not only to Black's death, but also the end of the Black lineage..
they were destined to die out... what does this leave in store for the
Order I wonder? 

I chuckle at JKR's Wordplay all the time not only with character names
but with Spells, and such too. Author names are particularly
wonderful... especially in the early books. 

Mtwelovett