Felix Felicis

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 127941


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:

> 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.
> 
> I went to the enclycopedia to look up the Latin name for cat. You 
might 
> like to know there is a Felis Geoffroy. With my poor translation 
> skills, that becomes, Geoff, King of the Cats. (It's really 
Geoffrey 
> Cat.)

Geoff:

Drat and blast. 

One of the group has already blown my cover as the Half-Blood Prince 
as a result of that bit of trivia.....

Seriously, though, picking up on one or two items. I used "lucky" for 
convenience but my Latin dictionary gives "felix" 
as "lucky/happy/fortunate/successful" and, interestingly, cat is 
given as "feles", not "felis"; they are completely different words 
however. Felis Geoffroyi is one of the ocelot family apparently. 
Bearing in mind that my name is derived from Gottfried (=God's 
peace), we have a religiously satisfied cat.

Working on mz-annethropes suggestion, I think Felix Felixson would be 
a good translation.