JKR punning names (was: New Member and question)

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 160711

The 'hogwart' is a flowering plant that was used medicinally at one time.

As for the winged boars, "When pigs fly" is a well-known expression for
something that is deemed impossible.


Umbra in Latin means 'shade' or 'shadow.'

Dolores means 'sorrows' or 'pains.'  (Stabat mater dolorosa/juxtu crucem
lacrimosa/dum pendabat filius. . . ')

Dolores Umbridge means a 'painful/sorrowful shadow.'


Volo/volare means 'to fly.'

Flight from death.=Vol de Mort.


Bruce