[HPforGrownups] Re: Mimblewimble (from a post on alt.fan.harry-potter)

[Becky Walkden]

No: HPFGUIDX 60925




 Ginger wrote:

 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.


ME:  Well, considering he does all his magick with a broken wand (it was snapped in half!), I would say he is a pretty darn good wizard!  Huggs Becky



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