JKR punning names (was: New Member and question)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 160719

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Charles Walker Jr" <darksworld at ...> wrote:
 
> One I'm kicking myself for not seeing until this discussion is Rita 
> Skeeter. (skeeter=Southern US slang for mosquito-Rita bing an insect 
> animagus)I can't be certain of it being intentional, but it sure fits 
> the pattern. This may just come from the fact that I'm exhausted and 
> headed for bed, but has anybody noticed that Tom is the Riddle that 
> Harry has to figure out?
> 
> Charles, who is going to bed before he blurts out another sentence 
> like that last one.

Geoff:
This thread is getting to be quite fun, isn't it? Makes a change to picking 
over the bones of the last 10 000 mesages about Horcruxes, Snape etc. 
ad infinitum ad nauseam.......  :-)

One thought which returned to me was an idea I floated ages ago. The 
older meaning of "riddle" is a sieve. I live nowadays in a rural area and 
sometimes hear the older farmers still using the word in that context. I 
pondered as to whether there might be some link between freind Tom 
and Pensieves.

Perhaps I should allow the thought to go away again.....

This probably comes of wading through a few dozen posts at 7:00 in the
morning. Time methinks for cereal and toast.