Caput Draconis, WAS: Re: Fate of HANDSOME guys in the Harry Potter series

[iris_ft]

No: HPFGUIDX 84466

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bohcoo" <sydenmill at m...> 
wrote:
> 
> > SS, ch. 7, page 130, American Edition:
> > "'Caput Draconis,' said Percy, and the portrait swung forward to 
> > reveal a round hole in the wall."
> > 
> > Remember SNUF-fles?
> > 
> > Caput Draconis:
> >      Caput: Kaput -- "utterly defeated or destroyed; made 
useless or 
> > unable to function." {The Merriam-Webster Dictionary})
> >      And, Draconis:  Draco (n) is.
> > 
> > Sorta looks a good bit like a hint , doesn't it? Maybe that is 
why 
> > JKR didn't want us getting too fond of him. He isn't going to be 
> > around that much longer.
> 
> Caput Draconis means 'the head of the dragon'. I've always felt it 
> was somehow related to 'pig snout', another Gryffindor password, 
(skip)

"Caput Draconis" can also mean "Beginning of Initiation".
See what Joseph Campbell wrote about the hero's journey in The Power 
of Myth. 

My two knuts,

Iris