More linguistic confusion--deer, elk, and moose

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Carol, who just discovered through a bit of Googling that English red
> deer and American elk are different subspecies of the same species,
> Cervus elaphus, but American elk are larger and more brownish
 
> http://www.suwanneeriverranch.com/reddeer.htm


zanooda:

This is an interesting information. Until now I though for some reason
that "elk" was the same thing as "moose" - the same animal who just
happened to have two different names, LOL! I can see now that elk are
closer to red deer than to any moose :-). To bring this topic back to
Patronuses :-), I get it from the discussion that James transformed
into a red deer stag, right? 

BTW, Geoff, I watched PoA yesterday (just the second part, because I
can't have another look at those horrible heads hanging everywhere
:-)), and you were right. If you look very attentively, you can notice
the stag's head with antlers silhouetted against the white light that
comes out of back-in time Harry's wand. 

Still, it's not the way it should be: the stag should charge at the
dementors and chase them away, and we must be able to see it clearly
:-). That would have been an awesome scene, and I hope they'll finally
show us Harry's Patronus in DH - he casts it rather often there :-).


zanooda, who just remembered that "red deer" is called "noble deer" in
Russian...