Dumbledore

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 116490


Dungrollin wrote:
> More amusingly, it's also an old name for dor beetles, which are 
> big shiny black dung beetles (try 'Geotrupes' in google images). I 
> got *terribly* excited when I first read PS, thinking 'Hooray! The
> Headmaster's a dung beetle!' But then JKR said in an interview that
> he was named that because it's a word for bumble bee, and I felt 
> like a punctured lilo... Oh well. [signed] Dungrollin<<
>
> Kim again: Very interesting. Now that would be one way to keep
> people away from him and thus from discovering who he really is, 
> not to mention possibly keeping Crookshanks from eating him --
> Dumbledore's a dung beetle! Also, I guess that's the key to your
> HP4GU nome de plume?? What an interesting crowd on this list --
> entomologists and everything!

Cunning Spirit:
Anyway, since I believe that JKR once said in an interview with 
regards to the beastly manifestations of animagi, that the beast 
form was a reflection of the mage's inner nature, I'd have a hard 
time going along with the idea that JKR's "epitome of goodness"
was a dung beetle animagus.


Dungrollin again:

Maligned!!!  

Dung beetles (or at least, the sacred scarab) were to the Ancient 
Egyptians what phoenixes are to the WW. To the Egyptians they 
symbolised resurrection, as they'd disappear into the soil with a 
ball of dung, die, and then brand new ones would emerge the year 
after like magic (the Egyptians couldn't see the eggs inside the 
dung balls).

There are all sorts of ecological reasons why dung beetles are 
indispensable, tireless workers, but I won't go into those.  But 
really, if sorting out the problems caused by Voldy and co. isn't 
akin to shovelling ****, I don't know what is...

Whereas, male bees are lazy good-for-nothings, they do no work, get 
fed and watered by their sisters, then leave the nest, find a girl, 
have some fun, and die soon after.

I know which I think is more apt for an 'epitome of goodness'... 
(But I'll freely admit to being horribly biased.)

Dungrollin
Wishing she could change the title of her thesis to
`Entomological Symbolism in Harry Potter'...