Reactions to various posts.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 144000

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Alan Wilson" 
<bawilson at c...> wrote:

> Geoff:
> "There are lots of other little plays on words and in-jokes which 
have 
> been used by JKR:
> Diagon Alley, Knockturn Alley, Malfoy, Grimmauld Place, Professor 
> Unbridge, Dumbledore to mention but a handful."
> 
> Bruce:
> 'Delores' means 'sorrows'; Umbridge is from 'umbra', Latin 
for 'shadow.'

Geoff:
In this case, it's a play on teh english expression "to take umbrage" 
which means to take offence at something, to bridle at something done 
or said....