A few words, once again

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 169447

> justcarol67 wrote:
> Another favorite moment, one that makes me smile, is Harry 
> remembering "Nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak," and smiling through 
> his tears at Dumbledore's funeral. I smiled through my tears, too.

Bart:
> Am I STILL the only person who does NOT think it's a coincidence 
> that those 4 words contain the letters, "D,U,M,B,L,E,D,O,R and 
> E"???? I've put the rest of the letters through anagram generators,
> but haven't got anything useful, yet.

> Julie:
> Those 4 words also contain the letters T,O,M,R,I,D,D,L,E. 
Coincidence?  I put the remaining letters through an anagram 
generator, and got the following:
> 
> WIN BUT WET-BLANKET
> 
> Hmm. He is sort of a wet-blanket of a villian ;-)

> Julie, suspecting it's probably all meaningless


Jen:  I used to love anagrams, had pages of trying to work out 
Droobles Best Blowing Gum.  That was a fun time on the list with less 
canon and more theories! :)  Then I ended up finding JKR's answer 
about the gum wrappers very poignant, that Alice wanted to give 
Neville something back for visiting and to make a connection with 
him.  Still sad she likely won't recover though; I'd hoped for some 
progress after OOTP and realized it's not likely after JKR's 
interview comment.

Back to the above: It's interesting both Dumbledore's and Riddle's 
name are there and not Voldemort.  Also that the phrase is in the 
book prior to "I am Lord Voldemort."  I would say it was a sneaky way 
to get Riddle's name in there but since she hadn't introduced an 
anagram yet that would be a stretch to figure out.  If you guys 
couldn't generate an anagram I won't bother trying, but I'd be 
curious to find out if she specifically used words so that the names 
would be contained within or if she just liked the way the words 
sounded together (or some other mundane explanation). 

Jen, suspecting as an anagram it's meaningless but still curious 
what's behind the creative impulse.