Naming Puns (was Re: The Grim?)

potioncat willsonkmom at msn.com
Mon Apr 5 01:57:45 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 95188


> > 
sniping a few posts to keep it short
> 
> 
> Mel:
> It's not a pun, but it's delicious wordplay on "Sturm and Drang"
> this clip from encyclopedia.com:
> 
> 
> Sturm und Drang (shtoorm oont dräng) or Storm and Stress,
movement 
> in German literature that flourished from c.1770 to c.1784. It 
takes 
> its name from a play by F. M. von Klinger, Wirrwarr; oder, Sturm 
und 
> Drang (1776). 

Potioncat:
Forget I ever mentioned Binns.
Well, if Drumstrang is a rearrangement of Strum and Drang  and  if 
hogwarts is a reversal of warthogs, do we have anything else like 
that going on that this simple minded reader missed?

Potioncat who's still laughing at Harry being disillusioned and 
wonders at the other jokes that sailed over her head.





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