Felix Felicis

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Potioncat:
> My Latin is even rustier. I thought Felix was cat. Has someone else 
> offered that idea up? Turns out cat is Felis. So maybe it's Felix the 
> Cat I remember. I wonder if JKR is making a sort of pun/word play on 
> Felix and Felis. Which might make the lion-like man Felix Felicis. 
> He's a happy, hep cat, man.

SSSusan:
You're not alone in this thought, Potioncat (aka, "Potionfelis" -- hee, 
gotta love that).  When JKR first announced this term or phrase or name 
(whatever it turns out to be), I came up with exactly what you did -- 
posted it at OTC, I do believe.  I definitely was thinking of the Felix 
the Cat cartoon... and of that leonine description we'd gotten 
previously... and figured the new DADA instructor was a leonine man 
named Felix Felicis.

(IIRC, I was hooted out of the room. ;-))

Siriusly Snapey Susan