Pansy, Narcissa, LUPIN!

[Mark]

No: HPFGUIDX 86439

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tigerpatronus" 
<tigerpatronus at y...> wrote:
> 
> A rose is a rose is a . . . lupin. a 
> garden filled with *lupins!* I didn't know this was a flower. (> 
And as much as there is a "wolfy" connotation to Remus Lupin's name, 
> I wonder if there is a connection to the Flower Power Theories. 

It doesn't strike me so because:
1) Lupin is his "last" name, not the first.
2) It's traditional to name girls after pretty (or in this case 
pretty dangerous) flowers; not boys.
3) The name of the flower still has it's roots in the same place 
as "lupine" as in wolflike.  Allegedly because the flower was thought 
to exhaust the soil (ravenous like a wolf).  

See: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=lupine

Mark