Luna and Lupin

[arcum42]

No: HPFGUIDX 75427

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Diana_Sirius_fan"
<siriuslove71 at y...> wrote:
> --- 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.              
> 
Or perhaps she is *going* to be bitten by a werewolf. Imagine if she
and Lupin were working closely together in the fight against Voldemort
in one of the next two books, and she got bitten by him accidentally
(esp if he forgot his potion again)...

--Arcum