Wizard Baruffio and the Wingardium Leviosa Charm

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Sun Oct 15 14:47:39 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 159734

--- In _HPforGrownups at HPforGrownupHPf_ (mailto:HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com) 
,  msmacgoo at ... wrote:
i've puzziling how Wizard 
> Baruffio finishes up  with a Buffalo on his chest when there is no "f" 
> in Wingardiun Leviosa  to misspronounce as a "s".
> So how come ? [HP1 page 126 UK  Ed]

>Katie
 
>The nearest I can figure is the way they pronounce the v in leviosa  as
>more of an f sound instead of a v. 

>Another reason could be  that he used Wizard Buaruffio as an example of
>how missing on letter in a  spell can cause bad results. We can
>probably assume that the spell  Flitwick is referring to is not
>necessarily Wingardium Leviosa but  another spell in which the f was
>replaced with an s and he ended up with  a buffalo. 

Nikkalmati
 
I assume this is a play on the wizard's own name, not on the spell he  used.
 
Nikkallmati


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