Janus Thickey and his Ward

[caesian]

No: HPFGUIDX 97858

::Entropy:: 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)?
> > 
> Carolyn:
<snip> 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 !

Caesian's two bits:
The Dangerous Dai Llewellyn ward at St. Mungos is also named after a famous wizard, and 
so it tends to make me *slightly* less worried about the Janus ward.  I'm not sure what I 
think about the inhabitants of the Janus Thickey ward, their relatives, or their woes.  (I 
myself have a stern grandmother, and I'm pretty sure she's not poisoning me.)  And Janus 
as a name for this particular wizard is entirely appropriate - but why does JKR use his 
name for this particular ward?  We already know that duplicitous bad stuff has occurred 
there - Mr. Bode's murder.  Will that be the extent of the two-faced intrigues? 

Caesian - who tends to get anxious on Neville's behalf