Names of St Mungo's wards/SILK GOWNS clue ?

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 82287

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hp_lexicon" <steve at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, RSFJenny19 at a... wrote:
> > Carolynwhite2 wrote:
> > 
> > <However, on the 4th floor, reserved for Spell Damage patients, 
we 
> > find that the Longbottoms, Lockhart, Bode and Agnes are all in 
> > the `Janus Thickey' ward. Why has this ward been named after 
Janus 
> > Thickey ? FB tells that Janus was a wizard who left a note that 
he 
> > had been attacked by a lethifold in 1973, when in fact he was 
> > discovered 5 years later living with the landlady of the Green 
> Dragon 
> > a few miles away... 
> 
> In my opinion, Janus Thickey found himself on the receiving end of 
a 
> LOT of spell damage when his wife found him out. That's why the 
> Spell Damage ward was named after him. 
> 
> Steve Vander Ark
> The Harry Potter Lexicon

Carolyn:

Steve

I posted my message late last night, and your solution occurred to me 
too, as I thought it over afterwards. BUT, it seems to me that even 
if that's what happened, and St Mungo's managed to sort him out, 
surely he wouldn't get a ward named after him unless he'd given the 
hospital a lot of money, in grateful thanks ? (eg like Lucius Malfoy 
has been doing). And he wouldn't have a lot of money as a pub 
landlord with his girlfriend and ex-wife and a child to support ! (If 
they make people pay maintenance in the WW).

The other thought was that it was meant to be a simple play on sounds 
and meanings, which JKR likes to do, with 'Thickey' = stupid, and 
perhaps Janus = the 2-faced Roman god ? (Not sure about this, no 
doubt someone will correct me..) The message being that people in 
this ward got spell damage because they made some stupid decision 
about something, and also possibly because they behaved in an 
underhand way. 

However, although that might definitely apply to Lockhart, and 
possibly Bode and Agnes to some extent, it doesn't fit so well with 
the Longbottoms, from what we know about what happened to them so 
far. Maybe they did make some kind of stupid decision, which lead to 
them being caught and tortured ?

Carolyn
(who has several cats with lethifold tendencies..)