Ton-tongue toffies and other tongue twisters

[Deb]

No: HPFGUIDX 157213

(Snip) 
> "So, been keeping busy, Barty?" said Bagman breezily.
> 
> I had to replay that line 3 or 4 times. I don't think I would have 
> noticed it if I were reading it to myself. I don't know how Jim Dale 
> kept from breaking up.
> 
> It's the weekend, we can use some fluff---does anyone else have an 
> example of 'did she really write that?'--lines that sort of jump out 
> and amuse us.
> 
> Potioncat


Deb Here:

 I chuckle at that one too PotionCat!  I came across a line yesterday 
as I was rereading SS for the 9th or 10th time that had me rolling on 
the floor! In fact it was so astonishing I swear JR is psychic and can 
foretell the future! Cuz there, in the very first Harry Potter book, 
is the cornerstone of the HPFGUs reason for being.....

 Chapter Four: Keeper of the Keys

"BOOM. They knocked again. Dudley jerked awake.
  "Where's the cannon?" he said stupidly."

And thus did JR provide the List Elves with their Motto .... long 
before HPFGUs was even a gleam in it's creator's eye. *G* Yeah, yeah I 
know the spelling is different .... (and hugs to the List Elves - I do 
not at all mean to imply that Dudley's state of existence is any where 
similar to yours - we have only intelligent List Elves)

djklaugh (aka Deb) - who is finding the 10th or is it the 15th reading 
or SS just as enjoyable as the first and is chortling at the massive 
numbers of foreshadowings that occur in just the first couple of 
chapters.