Farmer Hagrid, hairy sisters, more pro-Cho, transfiguration musings

[Rosanne]

No: HPFGUIDX 29864

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., monicawitt at m... wrote:
For example, Sirius Black = Black Dog, it's Greek (or Latin? I don't 
have a dictionary handy), and  English together. 

Dog in latin is "canem" of the famed "cave canem"(Beware the Dog)in 
Pompeii's mosaic at The House of the Tragic Poet.  Sirius was Orion's 
dog who was placed in the heavens with Orion after his lover Diana 
accidentally shot him with an arrow. Sirius is known as the "Dog 
Star".

Then again there's Severus Snape... Severus I would 
> take to be a latinization of "severe"

That would be a fair assumption. "Severitas" is the latin word 
meaning "severity, rigor, sternness or strictness".

Rosiewolf