Wordplay/ What's fun about the HPs?

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Carol wrote: 
> At any rate, I think JKR is just having fun with words here even if
> the wordplay doesn't qualify as a pun. Maybe a spoonerism of sorts as
> someone mentioned upthread: "hogwarts" sounds like a misspelling or
> misreading of "hogswort" that JKR may actually have heard somewhere
> and collected. (I have all sorts of useless trivia of that sort, the
> latest being "aqua pella" for "a cappella." One of my favorites is
> "holding down the fork.")

Potioncat:
We learned about Spooner at church last week, who once intended to call 
Christ a "loving shepherd" but instead said "shoving leopard." I missed 
the rest of the sermon I was laughing so hard.

Aren't some of the magical items, candy and such, spoonerisms? You 
don't catch them unless you're British. I remember reading something 
along that line, but I don't remember the words. Does anyone know what 
I'm talking about? (I rarely do.)

 
> Carol, wondering if Healer!Snape will discover the twelve use of
> hogswort in the Epilogue :-)

Potioncat:
Nice idea. Which reminds me of a sort of twist on words when Snape 
refers to the "exact art and subtle science" in Harry's first Potions 
class.


Potioncat, hoping that isn't movie contamination like "silly wand 
waving."