Mimblewimble (from a post on alt.fan.harry-potter)

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 60879

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Marco" <karmadharma at y...> 
wrote:
(snipping the stuff about the computer game)

> ================ the post in question ==============
> On page 50 of Sorcerer's Stone, there is this: "Uncle Vernon, who 
had
> gone very pale, muttered something that sounded like Mimblewimble". 
> 
> The significance of this escaped us until we read the guidebook to
> Harry Potter and The C0S computer game. On page 18, under "Wizard
> Dueling Spells", it is noted that "mimblewimble" is a "stuttering
> charm", which "causes your opponent to mess up his or her next
> spell". 
> 
> The next spell performed by Hagrid, was, of course, the one which 
was
> supposed to turn Dudley into a pig, which, for some reason, only 
gave
> him a pig's tail. I haven't seen "mimblewimble" mentioned anyplace
> else. 
> 

Just a my (Ginger)perspective, here, but maybe the point is that it 
*sounded* something like Mimblewimble.  If Hagrid had completed 
enough coursework to know about it, or had just picked it up in 
passing, he may have had a psychological reaction to it and fluffed 
the spell thinking he had been cursed to do just that.

Or maybe he's just not a very good wizard.

Ginger, who would like to take this opportunity to thank those who 
have been using the OoP prefix.  Those of us with our hands over our 
ears singing "I'm Henry the VIII" appreciate it!