HBP/Harry/Sirius/Snape/Patronus/Sn./Neville/Sn./Doge/C.Drac./Kreachur/abusedH

[amanitamuscaria1]

No: HPFGUIDX 129727

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:
snippin' lots
> "njelliot2003" predicted in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/129569 :
> 
> << the first Fat Lady password Harry hears is "Caput Draconis" (pg.
> 96). >>
> 
> Caput Draconis means 'head of dragon'. I think it is the name of
> something astrological, like some point in the Moon's orbit. I have a
> gut feeling that it is related somehow to another password: "Pig's
> snout". Because Pig and Dragon are both animals, and the snout is part
> of the head. But I can't figure out that such a relationship would
> mean anything for the plot.

AmanitaMuscaria now -
I seem to remember from a long-ago hazy time spent in Herefordshire, 
the West Country, and Norfolk/Suffolk, that pig's snout was a drink.
Draconis is also defined as 'snake', and, of course, snakebite is a 
lethal combination of cider and gin. (Cider as in the alcoholic Brit 
variety)
The only reason this links to me is that JKR spent her teens in 
Chepstow, right on the border of cider-making country. 
Chin-chin. AmanitaMuscaria