Nitwit-Oddment-Blubber-Tweak

[Tammy Rizzo]

No: HPFGUIDX 54574

There's a heckuvalot of information in the archives, and I'm still delving through 
them, and I'm SURE that someone has probably brought this up at some time or 
other in the past, but here goes anyway.  If this has been talked to death already, 
then I'm sorry.  Otherwise, I'd love to hear people's thoughts on this.

So far, most of the charms we've heard have at least some Old Latin flavor to the 
words.  Accio, obliviate, expecto patronum, etc.  The only one I can think of offhand 
(I had to return the library's volumes and am waiting very impatiently for my own to 
arrive) would be Alohomora (which always sounded vaguely Hawaiian to me).  
Those are charms.  Then there are spells, like the one (bogus or not) that 
Gred/Forge -- sorry, but I can't tell 'em apart! -- gave Ron to turn Scabbers yellow, 
which was in plain English.  What I'm wondering now is this:

Has Dumbledore prefaced any more feasts with 'a few words', as he did in Harry's 
first year, or was that a one-off?  Have we simply not witnessed any more 'few 
words'?  Or, if it was a singular occasion, what are the chances that D's 'few words' 
may have been some kind of trigger for a spell, set at some earlier time, in 
preparation for Harry's life at Hogwarts?  After all, what ARE the chances that 
anyone would utter those four words strung like that in any normal conversation?

Tammy