Luna and Lupin

[Diana_Sirius_fan]

No: HPFGUIDX 75171

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "oh have faith" 
<rshuson80 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "american_pie8887" 
> <MagRig13 at a...> wrote:
> > I was reading a quote about Lupin and it was Peeves calling 
> > him "Loony loopy Lupin" 


Faith's Girl wrote:
> They invite a similar kind of word play, certainly.  But it could 
> just be coincidence; my reading was that JKR called Ms 
> Lovegood "Luna" because she is a little loony - the moon has often 
> been associated with madness (hence "lunatics").  Many old wives 
> tales attribute strange behaviour to starring at the moon too long, 
> or walking under a full moon and the like. 

Now Me:

I have a hard time believing that JK has coicidences.  The 
word "looney" is slang from the Latin word luna for moon.  Luna has 
probably been bitten by a werewolf.  This came up in an earlier post 
(sorry can't remember who wrote it), but maybe the spell that Luna's 
mom was trying to work on and died from was one to cure 
Luna.              

Diana