Jim McGuffin

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 88024

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, LWalshETAL at a... wrote:
> 
> Remember Jim McGuffin with the weather?  A Word a Day,
> put out by Anu Garg just featured the word McGuffin.
> I wasn't aware of the meaning of the word and perhaps
> others aren't either.  
> 
> He writes:
> "McGuffin (muh-GUF-in) noun, also MacGuffin
> 
>    A device that helps propel the plot in a story but is of little
importance in itself.
> 
><snip>
> 
> A McGuffin could be a person, an object, or an event that characters
of a story are interested in but that, intrinsically, if of little
concern."
> 
> I wonder if that means that Ted, the newscaster IS of
> concern, if McGuffin is NOT.  Ted Tonks? anyone?


I doubt that it's Ted Tonks. He's a Muggle-born wizard (PoA 113, Am.
ed.), not a Muggle. I do think the name McGuffin is a neat little
in-joke, though.

Carol, with apologies for the short post