...I suppose I should not be so disappointed in fandom for being freakin' illiterate, especially when Rowling is not exactly a shining star of word usage.

But come the hell on, people, this means "put a cork in a bottle of" death, e.g. poisons.

Don't you remember when you started new subjects in school how every teacher had to make their subject sound like the absolute most important subject you had, in the feeble hope of getting you to pay attention? That's all this is.

Pls "stopper" your poisonously illiterate attempts to make poetry out of piss-all, k thx.