Firenze (was: Re: Pronunciation of Voldemort)

[Susan Miller]

No: HPFGUIDX 75889

> Les queried
> >Are there female centaurs?

Then Laura Ingalls Huntley wrote a great post about how centaurs 
might herd in the Forbidden Forest. She postulates that female 
centaurs may be tending the foals in an unobserved place away from 
the males.

My concern about the physical issues of a creature such as a centaur 
is the double torso problem. I'm willing to assume that there is 
somewhere a single heart and set of lungs, and a single stomach in 
one or the other of the torsos. I'm even willing to believe that in 
such a magical creature, there could possibly be two hearts, two sets 
of lungs and two stomachs that are somehow  arranged in an 
anatomically efficacious manner. Where I come completely short is 
imagining a nursing mother centaur. Put the mammaries in a human-
centric model and the foals will be too short to reach. No sitting on 
a rocking chair for this mother, either. Put them in traditional 
horse position and the foal is probably too tall and mis-aligned, too.

One could conclude that there are no females, and that new centaurs 
are somehow "made", but they do acknowledge "foals", so it would seem 
that they do have young. Any ideas? Maybe they don't nurse, but are 
nourished in some other magical manner?

Constance Vigilance