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

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 92995

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

> We all know JKR named Remus J. Lupin, and she loves to play 
> beautifully with the names of the characters in her stories. Remus 
> (and Romulus, the founder of Rome) were brought up from birth by a 
> she-wolf, and Lupin being the French word for wolf.  

Carolyn:
I have often wondered whether we are due to meet his twin brother at 
some point, if Remus *was* the name he was given at birth. And it was 
a bit careless of his parents to let their little boy get bitten - 
where were they, and what were they doing at the time ? Maybe the 
werewolf who bit him, was unfortunately a relative, who they thought 
was safe at the time, but turned nasty before they could get away ? 

JKR said in the recent interview that Remus was a half-blood - 
meaning Muggle & magic parent. Maybe the muggle half of the marriage 
unwittingly married into a wizard family with some dubious wolf 
ancestory. I know werewolves can't breed, but are there some 
animal/human crosses possible in the WW? Look at Centaur's for a 
start.

His father could have been a muggle called John, but his mother had a 
sad, dark secret ? Maybe it was his brother that bit him ?