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

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 152554

> Magpie:
> Hogwarts=Wart Hog
>
> Durmstrang=Sturm und Drang/Storm and Stress.
>
> It's associated with an 18the century German romantic literary tradition.

> Catherine again:
>  Oh, I got the Wart Hog thing, I thought maybe it was something else that 
> I had missed. Thanks, I had no idea about Durmstrang, that's really 
> interesting. JKR is a very well-ead lady!

Magpie:
Oh, I don't think there is a connection to the school.  It just sounds 
funny, is my guess, for the hog connection, which is also connected to 
Hogsmeade.  The area may have originally been associated with pigs.  As an 
aside, Swineherds were often associated with madness and therefore sort of 
Shamanistic visions.  Merlin in some legends was mad for a time, and I think 
also tended pigs.  Then of course there's the winged boars outside the 
school suggesting "when pigs fly."

-m