[HPforGrownups]Draco's Name WAS: Lupine / Muggle Parents / BIG Castle

[Claire <ophelia12uk@yahoo.co.uk>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52840

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, heather <heather at c...> wrote:
> Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) wrote:
> >
> > People have wondered how his parents knew to name him "Remus", and
> > Pippin hypothesized a Naming Spell which automatically puts an
> > appropriate name on the child, but I don't see how even a Naming
> > Spell could control what family name he had inherited ... the same
> > applies to Sirius Black being a Black Dog animagus ("an-ee-may-
juss"
> > to me) ... I want to know how it is that the wizarding folk never
> > notice that so many of their people have meaningful names and get
> > suspicious of them. Such as how could no fellow student have
> > suspected that Remus Lupin was a werewolf just from his name?
> 
> I wonder why Lucius Malfoy named his child so peculiarly, 
especially as
> his name features prominently in the school motto.
> 
> The real live dragons in the books seem to be nothing more than 
large wild
> creatures, unless I've forgotten something dark about them.
> 
> heather
> --


Draco, as well as refering to dragons, can refer to snakes: the 
constallation Draco is the Snake (like Aries, the Ram), which would 
make more sense for an old Slytherin family like the Malfoys. But 
dragons in HP are also powerfully magical creatures with various body 
parts being used in many potions, so maybe that has something to do 
with it? In CoS, Hermione said something about dragons being 
magically useful, but "you wouldn't want one as a pet". Might this 
description apply to Draco in  the future as well?

In previous posts about animagi (an-ee-mah-gee), the consensous 
appeared to be that there was some correlation between a personality 
and the animagus form of that person. Perhaps Pippin's spell might 
name a child for personality traits which would then in time be 
reflected in the animagus transformation.

Claire.