 A colorful illustration of a pun built on the understanding of unmotivated

dismembered and. The "docked" parts of words are: the so-called

"celebration" of the day of death - "party of the day of death".
 Another example is the pun found in chapter 31: 'whomping willow' is a
pugnacious tree in Hogwarts grounds.
 One example is the name of the founder of one of the Hogwarts colleges,
Salazar Slytherin. Dividing the name of the hero into parts, we get: slither -
slide, slide, slide; sly cunning, dexterous, secretive. ‘Slytherin’ can also be a
pun on ‘slither in’ - which literally translates as to slide, smoothly move
anywhere; slide inside something; ‘Slithering’ - slithering or ‘sly therein’ -
cunning, dexterous, cunning; sneaky about anything.
 Another example is the name of the main negative character of the work -
Lord Voldemort. This name is a subtle play on words based on a
combination of volatile, mortal - flying from death; vol de mort - (French)
flight of death, flight of the dead. Plus - the same sound of the words vol -
wall (wall). In English-speaking countries, the expression ‘to turn one's face
to the wall’ is common - the meaning of which is “prepare to die”
 A fairly common type of language game in a work is the anagram, namely,
the permutation of the initial letters of pairs of words, as a result of which
the author's "paired" neologisms are obtained. The next example is from
chapter 22 of the book: 'Lairy fights, that's the one!' She giggled when they
gave the password, and she swung forward to let them inside (Chapter 22).
Rowling, and if you arrange the first letters of the words correctly, we get
fairy lights - Chinese lanterns, a traditional decoration with glowing garlands
for Christmas.
 Another particular case of an acronym-based pun comes across the reader in
Chapter 10: N.E.W.T.s, Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests.

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 So, to quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, hun
ting for north windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and 
low rents.
 A mite of a little woman with blood thinned by California zephyrs was hard
ly fair game for the red-fisted, short-breathed old duffer.
 "Delmonico's," and found their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves 
so congenial that the joint studio resulted.
 They had met at the table d'hote of an Eighth street "Delmonico's," and
found their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so congenial that
the joint studio resulted.
 She was wrapt in rosy dreams and a kimono of the same hue