Pronouncing Lupin, Wizard Reproduction, AK and Immortality

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 35831

At 11:23 PM +0000 2/26/02, lucky_kari wrote:
>
>Having a good education in French, I pronounced it that way, the same
>way as an animated cartoon character of the same name :-).

Oh, _great_.  Now this subtitle snob is going to be mentally calling 
him "Lemus Rupan."  Thanks a lot.  :(

>I dread the thought of a movie with a different pronounciation. I
>already was bullied out of pronouncing "Malfoy" in accordance with its
>French roots.

So how did you pronounce it before you were bullied?


At 12:18 AM +0000 2/27/02, GulPlum wrote:
>The only French literary antecedent for "Lupin" I know is Arsène
>Lupin, Gentleman Burglar (have they made animated films about his
>exploits?)

There's a series of anime films about his grandson, who practices the 
same profession.  I believe that's the fellow referred to above.



At 8:12 PM -0500 2/26/02, Laura Huntley wrote:
>Why, if wizarding folk live longer (and therefore take a 
>correspondingly longer time to hit menopause), are there less 
>wizards than Muggles inhabiting the world??

Better contraceptive charms?  Practicing magic while pregnant causes 
birth defects?

Actually, I'm fond of the theory that magic has a negative effect on 
fertility.  Perhaps magical emanations reduce sperm count or 
something.  Many of the magical children appear to be only children - 
Neville, Harry, Cedric, Draco, probably Hermione.  Many of the ones 
who aren't only children are Muggleborn - the Creeveys, for example. 
The Weasleys seem to be the only really large Pureblood family that 
we know of.  Maybe a fertility charm runs in the family . . .

A third option might be that, even with the extended lifespan, 
witches hit menopause at the "normal" time.  That would make Ron and 
Ginny change-of-life babies, or something very close to them; perhaps 
that's one reson Molly seems to baby Ginny so much.



At 4:05 PM +0000 2/27/02, naamagatus wrote:
>And if AK-
>ing Harry would have brought him immortality and invincibility, why
>go through all the tedious resurrection ritual (in GoF)? He had Harry
>there. He could have simply AK-ed him, right?

Would _you_ want to be immortal as a homunculus, though?


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