[HPforGrownups] Re:Wordplay/ What's fun about the HPs?

[catherine higgins]

No: HPFGUIDX 152543



    Geoff:
I have always be highly amused by JKR's wordplays which are sometimes lost on young people and also will leave readers who are not native English speakers lost.

Consider names such as Diagon Alley, Knockturn Alley, Hogwarts, 
Durmstrang, Grimmauld Place and Umbridge just to list a handful....


Inufan_625:

This caught my eyes as it was mentioned by another poster...something
about being embarassed about not getting the joke with Knockturn Alley
for so many reads.

   
  Catherine now:
  Don't be embarrassed, or at least we can be embarrassed together!  I never even noticed the word play on any of those names until this list just mentioned them, and even then I had to really read it and think about it....sigh...
   
   Knockturn Alley = nocturnally
  Diagon Alley = diagonally
  Grimauld Place = grim old place
   
  Don't get what's meant for word play on Durmstrang or Hogwarts. So if anyone can enlighten us less-than-attentive readers on those ones, I'd appreciate it, for one!
   
  Catherine
  (who really has to sleep more before my brain melts away completely!)

		
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