Etymology of Lupin's name (Was: The Names of the Books and the Teachers . .

[Randy]

No: HPFGUIDX 148030

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "festuco" <vuurdame at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Randy" <estesrandy@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > While you may not be interested in the allegorical exploration, I 
was 
> > taught that studying the underlying themes and structure of 
> > literature gave insight into the actions of the characters and 
the 
> > plotline.
> > 
> > For instance, the jealous actions of Hermione in Book Six that so 
> > many people find "out of character" could be explained by her 
need to 
> > be praised (a form of greed) in her grades and in her reactions 
to 
> > Harry in Potions class in this book.  
> 
> There is studying underlying themes and wishful thinking and 
fantasy.
> When you want to link books to the seven sins, why suddenly link
> jelousy to greed instead of seeing it as the expression of the sin 
of
> envy? I'm sorry, but I think you can make up cases for every sin and
> every virtue in every book and it will have nothing to do with true
> themes, but everything with seeing what you want to see.
> 
> Gerry
>

You know you are right.  I mispoke on this one.  Perhaps a definition 
of greed would help.

Hermione is not getting enough attention from Ron or Slughorn in 
Potions Class.

GREED

One of the seven chief features, or stumbling blocks. Its positive 
pole is egotism; its negative pole is voracity. It is caused by a 
fear of not having enough of a particular thing, such as money, food, 
sex, or attention.

And yes all of the seven deadlies are related to each other.  That is 
why I think the names of the books and the names of the DADA teachers 
are important.

Randy