The Tramp/Wizard Link

[Lalwendë]

Ever noticed how many tramps look like Wizards?

As I was telling Mr Hookbill recently, there are two tramps who hang around the cider-soaked open air drinking establishment that is the shopping area by my office, who bear an uncanny resemblance to Gandalf. One may in fact not be a tramp as I have never seen him clutching two litres of Special Red nor begging money with menaces, but he hangs around all day, in a slightly dreamlike state, drifting in and out of the Co-op and Thorntons like a tall, hairy fairy. He wears socks with his Jesus sandals too, which is intriguing - I thought that trend went out with my old German teacher and the 1980s...

But the other is definitely a tramp.

Anyway last night I caught a bus that had come from Chesterfield and was delighted to find that it contained two more Gandalf Tramps!

Is there some kind of wizard/tramp mathematical formula gving you the probability that any given tramp will be wizard-like?

Or is something quite sinister going on round here?

Am I very close to Diagon Alley or something?

Have the Sheffield floods brought some Istari on an urgent mission, sailing down the swollen Don on the front passenger door of an abandoned Ford Mondeo?