TiP breakup(s)/Mobiliarbus/Name of Padfoot

[Rita Winston]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Pigwidgeon" <simon at h...> wrote:

> But someone has voted for Simon/Cass. I am not at all happy. How 
> can anyone say such a partnership should be doomed?

Presumably someone else who wants Cassie or you for himerself.

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Trina" <lj2d30 at g...> wrote:
> Mobilicorpus moved Snape's lifeless body, so wouldn't mobiliboxen 
> (or pseudo-Latin ending for box) move boxes?

Snape's body was merely unconscious, not lifeless, or all HPfGU would 
be drowned in the tears of weaping women (and FeudalLord!Draco).

--- In harrypotteranonymous at y..., "Joe Guy" <joeguy at h...> wrote:

> Just reading a great book, Bodyguard of Lies by Anthony Cave Brown
> about the deception strategies in WWII, when I  stumbled over this
> little gem...
> "Three miles offshore the British sector of Normandy, two midget
> submarines, the X- 20 and the X-23 (snip) surfaced briefly (snip)
> to receive a signal from the Admiralty. The code word "Padfoot" 
> came over very faintly from the control station near Portsmouth;

and I asked whether that means that 'Padfoot' is a common word 
in British English, and

--- In harrypotteranonymous at y..., "InkyWings" <inkywings at e...> wrote:
> I don't know how Padfoot is used in Great Britain (I lived there 
> during grad school but never noticed it in the vernacular), BUT in
> the south and on Indian Reservations (at least the one where I was
> born) it means a wanderer.  Sort of like "tramp" or "romeo."  They
> also use Paddlefoot. 

and then 

--- In harrypotteranonymous at y..., I <catlady at w...> wrote:
> I *guess* it makes sense that a dog would have a name meaning 
> 'wanderer' -- it would be like the traditional US name for a dog, 
> Rover. Personally, I would prefer both my (hypothetical) dog and 
> my (less hypothetical) husband to be Fido (faithful) rather than 
> Rover. 
> 
> Romeo meaning 'wanderer' must be a pun on 'roam'.