Tying things up with Iggy. (a forwarded post)

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 95093

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jo Ann" <LadySawall at a...> 
wrote:
Potioncat wrote:
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> > I think Theo's name will work out in one or both ways you 
> > suggested.  Now, does anyone out there know anything about knots?
> 
Jo Ann wrote:  
>x> 
> One item that immediately comes to mind is that the things we 
> landlubbers commonly refer to as "knots" are actually four distinct 
> classes of rope tricks.  So if we're looking for any complex 
meanings 
> hidden in the name "Knot," we might want to keep these things in 
mind:
> 
> - A 'knot', proper, is used to form a loop in a length of line or 
to 
> create a mass to stop the line from fraying, or to provide a 
handhold.
> 
> - A 'hitch' is used to make a rope fast to another object.
> 
> - A 'bend' secures two ropes to each other.
> 
> - A 'splice' (really less a knot than a re-weaving of the rope into 
> itself) is another way of making loops or securing two ropes 
together.
> 
> - Proper terminology for the creation of a knot is 'to make' or 'to 
> put in,' not 'to tie.'
> 
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Potioncat:
I was just wondering if JKR had knot in mind for Nott and whether his 
name coresponds to a type of knot. Is there an O knot or T knot?   
Also, in my search of knots, strings came up.  And one of the mystery 
Sltherins was described as stringy.  (There a way of keeping tally 
using knots on strings.)

Potioncat