[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR punning names (was: New Member and question)

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 160681

Jenni:
> OK, I got the pun on Diagon Alley (diagonally), Knockturn Alley
> (nocturnally) and Hogwarts (warthog) but Umbridge, Durmstrang and
> Grimmauld are puns how?

Magpie:

Umbridge=Umbrage (meaning offense or annoyance as in "to take umbrage" at a 
remark)

Durmstrang=Sturm und Drang (a movement of German literature in the 18h 
century and a phrase meaning turmoil.  It literally translates as something 
like "storm and strife")

Grimmauld Place=Grim Old Place, because it is.

-m