OOP: Re: What's in a name . . . Luna/Lupin

[tigerpatronus]

No: HPFGUIDX 64309



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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "werebearloony" <
> Erthena at a...> wrote:
> > Yet another the nickname loony and lunatic are derivatives 
> > from the latin word Luna for moon so its all interconnected 
> > after all.
> > --loony

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "elspeth_orange" <cyn at t...> 
wrote:
> also, and not to get all pedantic and super-feminist here, but the 
> derivation of "lunacy" ("lunatic", "loony", etc.) from the Latin 
word 
> "luna" stems from the moon being representative of women in a 
> variety of mythologies and religions, and more specifically, the 
> governing body of the tides as well as women's monthly cycles.  
> menstruating women were considered to be powerful during 
> this time, but this perception became distorted into being 
> "possessed by the spirit of Luna" and all sorts of other negative 
> connotations, and eventually degenerated into being termed 
> "lunacy".  another word with a similar derivation is "hysterical", 
> from the Greek "hystera" meaning womb, relating to the belief 
> that wackiness was related to the uterus and thereby exclusive 
> to women.  :>
> 
> sorry to babble into OT-dom... i just get a little overzealous when 
> it comes to JKR-associated etymology.  :>
> 
>      -elspeth

I think JKR definitely uses names as both clues and red herrings, so 
it's not OT. (Like the malleable name of Sirius *Black*: at first you 
think the "Black" part is a clue because he's a mass murderer in PoA 
and Black=Evil, but then he's HP's godfather so the name is ironic, 
but then he's from a Dark Arts family so it fits again! A double 
switchback!) 

How about Looney's whole name though: Luna Lovegood. Trying to stay 
PG, here, but that sounds like a porn name. What's up with that? 

TK -- who used to be kenyon_krish_2 but changed it because that's an 
email I want to keep and not get spammed. Now: TigerPatronus!