[HPforGrownups] Re: The Appearance of the Number 12

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 12380

Stephanie Malfoy wrote:

> OH NO....ha ha ha.  My english teacher goes on and on and on about the
> signifigance of the number 3, and we are about to start Macbeth <vbg>
> Anyways, she looks as it is an evil thing, though she claims "anything
> signifigant comes in 3s or is a multiple of 3"  Anyways...i never
> noticed all of the 12s before, and I htinkit is funny, or maybe it is
> JKR's fav number.  Kind of like when you make a word search(for
> whatever reason) your fav letters, or rather more common letters,
> appear more than less common ones.  Just a thought...

Two and three often have mystical associations in many cultures, because
of the man+woman and then child thing. Three in particular, since with
the whole fertility thing 1+1=3. So multiples of three show up in old
"spells" and simples, Welsh triads, and loads of other stuff, even unto
modern Catholic novenas and the like. Three, nine, and twenty-seven are
the main numbers of repetitions I'm recalling....Wiccans?
Former-Catholic Wiccan Susan? Am I remembering right?

Twelve was a great number mystically because it was divisible by so many
other numbers. It had simply oodles of significant combinations inherent
in it. There's speculation that the reason the number 13 is unlucky is
that it falls right after 12, and isn't divisible by anything. Oooo.

--Amanda, who wishes she could recall specifics of her old cultural
anthropology stuff


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