Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!
Bart Lidofsky
bartl at sprynet.com
Fri Feb 16 17:26:48 UTC 2007
No: HPFGUIDX 165055
Bart:
I have just started re-reading the series, to prepare for Book 7, and I noticed something in Book 1 that I had never noticed before. Dumbledore's "speech" at the beginning of the Hogwarts term, a few words, "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" seemed a bit strange. In particular, the word, "oddment" didn't quite seem to fit. Then I looked at the phrase, and saw that one could extract the name "Dumbledore" from the letters in the word. After doing so, I tossed the rest of the letters into an anagram generator, allowed for obscure words, and got, well, nothing useful, so far. I figured that it was unlikely that I was the first to notice this, so I checked the web, and, at least after half an hour or so of looking, could not find anything about this anagram possiblity.
Has this ever been discussed here?
Bart
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