Sometimes it really helps to read things aloud. Case in point: Harry Potter. I didn’t notice the Diagon Alley / diagonally pun until last summer. Grimmauld Place didn’t strike me as odd until I read a snippet of the Harry Potter Lexicon. “Ah. Grim old place. That makes sense.” The latest in the line of these horrendously late epiphanies? Knockturn Alley / nocturnally. And for a person who’s as fond of puns as I think I am… it’s not a good thing.
This makes me wonder what other puns I’ve been missing… Ah, all the more reason to reread a few of the books, I guess.
