Is Remus really Lupin? Was: Minerva McGonagall & The SS

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 92966

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ghinghapuss" <rredordead at a...> 
wrote:

Mandy: 
>Remus (and Romulus, the founder of Rome) were brought up from birth 
by a 
> she-wolf, and Lupin being the French word for wolf.  

Geoff:
My Oxford French dictionary lists the French word for wolf as "loup" -
 "lupin" being the same as the English flower name. I think JKR was 
more likely working fom the English word "lupine". meaning wolf-like.