2 Neptunes/Fang/Fluffy/Papparazzo

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As a new list elf, I'm trying to be a good girl and combine my posts 
this time in the hopes that my modem will not disconnect me and 
freeze my computer, as usually happens when I attempt this. ::sigh::

mellienel2 at yahoo.com wrote: 

> always confused by the centaurs in PS, and now it is much clearer 
to me. Does Mars represent good or evil? What about Neptune - the 
only other reference to Neptune that I can remember is Ron's "a 
midget in glasses is being born" which I took to be a pure joke with 
no hidden meaning... What do people think?

Doens't  Harry also say, when they're doing their charts for their 
month of birth, that he has two Neptunes? I thought it was a joke 
too..but if JKR is including astrological things about mars, maybe it 
means something -- not something we can really find out, but 
something that has to do with Harry's uniqueness. Eh, who knows.

Me: I forgot about this in my (slightly) earlier post about 
Mars/Neptune.  I already stated that Neptune was the god of death and 
the underworld, so there could be a number of reasons why Harry has 
two in his chart (I doubt it is meaningless).  One possibility is 
that Harry has already come close to dying once, when Voldemort 
attempted to put AK on him as a baby.  The second Neptune might be an 
indication of the second murder attempt that comes near the end of 
GoF.  (Unless this is JKR's way of indicating that she WILL kill him 
off at the end of book 7 after all...but I don't want to depress 
anyone, least of all myself, since I very much want him to live.)

John wrote:

>I always pictured Fang as more massive. He certainly doesn't look 
very frightening. 

Me: Nevermind Fang; Fluffy, the three headed terror looks positively, 
er, fluffy in the stuffed-toy rendition available at our local going-
out-of-business WB store.  In fact, Fluffy looks downright cuddly.

Amy Z wrote:

CoS 15, when the FFA shows up--aren't dogs supposed to chase cars, 
not the other way
around? etc. 

Me: This is JKR's humor.  She likes those turnaround things.

Susan wrote:

Also the literal meaning of "papparazzo" is a flying, stinging, 
biting insect.

Me: I did not know that.  Now I will laugh even more every time I get 
to the footnote in Good Omens (Gaiman/Pratchett) where one of the 
characters is said to be under the impression that papparazzi is 
Italian floor tile (confusing the word with "terrazzo").

--Barb