Invisibiility Cloak - Moody - Kitty - Marvolo

[Catlady]

No: HPFGUIDX 18666

Keep on scrolling down: the most important remark in this post is the
one about Alastor Moody's name.

Morag Traynor wrote:
> JKR reinforces this point in FB, where we find that they are
> made from the hair of the Far Eastern Demiguise which "can
> be seen only by wizards skilled in its capture"

Reading FB, I was (and am) irritated by how magical artifacts get their
powers from being made of magical beasts rather than from the magic of
the witch or wizard who made them.

Catherine wrote:
> I don't think he often calls other teachers by their first names
> - at least not in the presence of students, and I recall at least
> one instance when he calls him Alastair instead of Professor Moody,

In GoF, in the room where the four Champions gathered just after being
selected, when Snape said to the other headmasters something about Don't
go blaming Dumbledore for Harry always breaking rules, Dumbledore called
Snape to heel by saying one warning word: "Severus." And IIRC he calls
Moody by first name when warning him off, as well.

Moody's first name is Alastor not Alastair. This matters because Alastor
is a real word. It means a spirit of vengeance (like a male equivalent
of Nemesis) or a spirit that pursues and torments a person.

Amy Z wrote:
> (I have always pictured her as a brown tabby, like my
> kitty, and was disappointed to learn that she will be a
> silver in the movie.  Humph.)

I've always pictured Minerva's cat form as an orange tabby, even tho'
for some reason male orange tabbies are more common than female orange
tabbies. Cat books say that in Britain, blotch tabbies are more common
than stripe tabbies like we have in USA.

Carissa Bradley wrote:
>   Who would name their child Marvolo. :)

To me it seems a perfectly reasonable name in a culture which finds it
perfectly reasonable to name their children Albus and Minerva and Sirius
and Severus and Draco.

By the way, I've always thought Carissa is a very pretty name.
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