Happy Birthday - Hobbit Name - Lupines - Veela - Geenrations -

[Catlady]

In Sunday 6/3's chat, Dinah started serenading Mecki:
"Happy BIrthday to you / You're a cute witchy-poo"
I don't know if she finished the song, but I made up an ending for it:
"Birthdays are magic / your wish will come true."

The Hobbit Name website returns Blank (no name) if you don't input a
name. So I inputted a variety of names and got:
Rosie-Posie Sandydowns
Tigerlily Hamwich of Buckleberry Fern
Camellia Hamwich of Buckleberry Fern.
Wisteria Deepdelver
Brown in Wisteria Gamgee-Took of Bywater

Amy Z wrote:
>  More than you ever wanted to know about lupines and wolfsbane

When I first read PoA and first saw that name Lupin, I didn't know
whether she was pointing us at a werewolf or at the highwayman, Danny
Turpin, "give me all your lupins", which in turn reminded me that I
don't know why that flower is name after a wolf. So I did some web
searching (and posted my discoveries on Harry Potter Anonymous) and
found a Latin-trivia site that said the Romans named it lupin (white
lupin, used as cattle feed, a different species than here in USA)
because the throat of the flower looks like a wolf's head. I don't know
what the throat of a flower might be.

> Texas is "the only place on earth bluebonnets grow."  Are
> bluebonnets exactly the same thing as blue lupines?

When one is a tourist in Oregon, all the tourist traps sell knick-knacks
carved out of a wood they call 'Oregon myrtle', with little tags
claiming that Oregon myrtle grows only in Oregon. Well, when I stopped
and read all the informational signs and the brochure on HIghway of the
Giants, it said that (I forget the Linnaean name) has common names:
Oregon Myrtle, California Laurel, and Pepperwood.

Catherine wrote:
> The other thing I was wondering - are all Veela female?
> Do they have to mate with [human] men in order that their
> species/race/whatever, survive?

It would be pleasant, altho' never mentioned in Muggle folklore, if the
males of the Veela species were just as beautiful, delicate, and
delicious as the females... altho' I think it more likely that the males
are extremely ugly, look nothing like the females, live in a different
environment (maybe they are the dwarves who mine underground), and get
together with the females only for reproductive purposes, such a general
orgy once or twice a year (Beltane and Samhain?)...

Ebony wrote:
> What do you think?  How do the generations vary as
> we've seen them in Harry Potter?  Is there any variance,
> or am I just indulging in another blissful session of reading
> into canon what many would say isn't there?  ;-)
> Perhaps the question I should be asking is, "Anyone still reading?"

All I can say is your well-written post is thought-provoking.

Parker wrote:
> I grew up in the same years as MWPP/Snape.  In my youth,
> I watched, horrified, as uniformed policemen sprayed
> African-Americans (quite a number of them children) with
> water guns, and set dogs on them.  I remember *exactly*
> where I was when JFK was assassinated.

I was born in November 1957, and am convinced that the Marauders (and
Lily, and Snape) were born in the same summer-to-summer year as me. And
I can't believe that Parker is older than me, so I must have been a very
out of it child.  I didn't know about the Civil Rights stuff when it was
happening. I was in first grade when JFK was assassinated (I saw the
flag at school at half-staff and asked a big knowledgeable sixth grader
why, who told me The President Has Been Assassinated, whereupon I asked:
what is 'assassinated'?). I was 10 when RFK was assassinated -- I had
been stuffing envelopes and ringing doorbells for him (my mother was a
fervent Democrat)...

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