Today in my children’s lit class, our professor went over a paper she’s writign about names and language in Harry Potter … Rowling really is quite genius in some of her naming …
Horace Slughorn — for hoarding students, connections and luxuries ….
Hermione — for Hermes the god of communication …
Kreacher — obvious, I think …
But I just came across a new one …
Sir Nicholas Mimsy-Poppington — in a chapter of Through the Looking Glass (by Lewis Carroll), Mimsy is defined by Humpty Dumpty to be a combination if miserable and flimsy.
Genius, really.
mark and I watched elf last night. thought of you. but mostly thought of myself