the word "Hogwarts" / Remus Romance / Remus riches

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Belinda wrote:

<< I was watching the Labyrinth (you know, that kids movie from the 
80's (1986 to be precice) with David Bowie in it) the other day and I
couldn't help but notice that when one of the characters 'Hoggle'
often gets called the wrong name by other characters, he's called
'Hogwart' a number of times. interesting... >>

One of my friends told me that a Hogwarts School appears in the 
Molesworth stories by by Geoffrey Willans and the famous Ronald 
Searle. Unfortunately I can't check this out for myself, as the books 
are ancient collectibles, costing hundreds of dollars on amazon.com. 

JKR herself said in an interview: 
"I thought I made up Hogwarts, but recently a friend said, 'Remember 
we saw lilies in Kew gardens (a garden in London.)' Apparently there 
are lilies there called Hogwarts. I'd forgotten!" 
and another interview: 
"A friend from London recently asked me if I remembered when we first 
saw Hogwarts. I had no idea what she was talking about until she 
recalled the day we went to Kew Gardens and saw those lilies that 
were called Hogwarts. I'd seen them seven years before and they'd 
bubbled around in my memory. When Hogwarts occurred to me as a name 
for the school, I had no idea where it came from."

Thanks to the Goat Pad for the exact quotes:
http://www.geocities.com/aberforths_goat/
http://www.familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,22-9966-0-2,00.html
http://www.geocities.com/aberforths_goat/Sum1999_Renton_SydneyMorningH
erald.htm

Richelle wrote:

<< Am I the only one who wants to marry Lupin? >>

Of course not! There are legions of us, including Amy Z who uses the 
Yahoo!name lupinesque. I fancy *many* wizards, but dear Remus is the 
only one I want to marry. Here's a snip from my main list post 
#39106: 
"I fancy Remus most of all, and I don't believe it has anything to do 
with wanting to rescue him or mother him or because he is 
'vulnerable': I believe his problems serve only to show how 
(emotionally) strong he is; I fancy him because he is so extremely 
kind (oh, the thought of someone being *that* kind to me!), and 
competent, and emotionally strong."
and #39101: 
"I am only one of the myriad of HPfGU women who rush, whenever 
someone claims that there is a dichotomy between fancying Severus 
and fancying Sirius, that *I* fancy both.

But I don't fancy Sirius as Hurt-Comfort: the Sirius I fancy is the 
pre-Azkaban one, the handsome boy with laughing eyes, who takes crazy 
risks flying on his motorcycle and doesn't think of consequences ... 
and I only want to sleep with him (and *maybe* be friends): he is 
NOT husband material.

Fancying Severus is a real case of Hurt-Comfort, in fact a cliche of 
cheap romance novels: the tall, dark, powerful,intelligent, NASTY man 
who won't let people get emotionally close to him, but the Nastiness 
is the result of his own tremendous inner suffering, and the romance 
heroine (i.e. the reader ... or Draco in my fic!) manages to melt 
that ice, get close to him, heal his inner suffering with her love, 
and then he loves her, with romantic words, hot sex, and more respect 
for her thoughts and feelings that he has ever shown for anyone 
else's before."

Olivia wrote:

<< Rowling really stressed the fact that Lupin is poor. (Which makes 
me wonder about the dynamics of his relationship with the wealthy 
James and possibly-wealthy Sirius.) >>

I think that Lupin was much less poor in his school days, when he was 
financially dependent on his parents, so it didn't matter that no one 
would hire him for a job. Maybe since then his parents have died 
without leaving him a big inheritance, I like to think they have 
retired and live on a limited retirement savings, or maybe he is too 
proud to accept money from them at the age of 36. If the parents died 
without leaving a big inheritance or retired on limited assets, then 
they weren't rolling in money during his school days either (unless 
they blew it all ... plot bunny?), but I imagine he had decent dress 
robes, non-pre-owned textbooks, and enough spending money that he 
could have a butterbeer on Hogsmeade weekends without having to 
depend on the charity of his friends.