Janus Thickey and his Ward

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 97850

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "entropymail" 
<entropymail at y...> wrote:
> 
> 2.   Previously mentioned this one, but thought I'd add it in: Janus
> Thickey is a wizard who faked his own death by Lethifold (also known
> as  Death Shroud, a Fantastic Beast only found in the tropics). 
> Coincidence that JKR is reminding us of a *wizard* who *fakes his 
own
> death* by means of a *shroud (veil)* linked to the *tropics* (where
> Sirius spent some time after his escape)?
> 
> 3.  Janus Thickey is said to have disappeared in 1973. Does anyone
> know of  this date as having any particular significance?  Can't 
seem
> to figure why it was even mentioned.
> 
Carolyn:
In the last discussion we had about this, back last year, the 
consensus (I think) was that this was another JKR joke/wordplay - 
Janus being the two-faced Roman god, and Thickey, because he was, 
er.. thick, trying to deceive his wife. 

Lexicon Steve believed Janus's name was used for the spell-damage 
ward on account of the spells chucked at him by his wife when she 
found out he had, in fact, eloped with the landlady of the Green 
Dragon !