luna equals silver

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No: HPFGUIDX 84544

While researching for a chemistry paper on the internet today, I 
came across some interesting information. The word "luna" is 
actually an ancient alchemical term for silver. Silver symbolically 
represents the moon in alchemy (as gold represents the sun), it's 
alchemy symbol is a crescent moon. So there is still a connection to 
the word luna and the moon, but this is the first I have realized 
that luna literally means "silver" in alchemy and now I'm terribly 
intrigued. 

Will there be some connection between Luna and Lupin in the future?
Maybe that silver hand of Wormtail's was just a red-herring after 
all? Just a curious thought with no basis in anything, really. 

Incidentally, does anyone know the origins of the silver/werewolf 
connection? Perhaps the importance of the moon to both silver and 
werewolves is what led people to put them together. 

Really just rambling....


Tanya