Gaelic Prince? Lupin's Boggart (Was: Re: Etymology of Lupin's name)

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No: HPFGUIDX 148072

Leah: 
> Shame really because silkies could change into human form and a man 
> who hid a silkie's seal skin could prevent her return to the sea 
and 
> keep her as a human wife, which has some resonance perhaps with 
> Eileen and Tobias. 
> 
> Leah (noting that Biblically, Tobias was a man who had to cast a 
> demon out of his wife before marrying her)


Potioncat:
Thank you one and all. I had the feeling Eileen and Eilean only 
looked similar. 

Now, on to Tobias's name. I ever knew about the Biblical connection. 
The Book of Tobias doesn't appear in all translations. Again I went 
to Google and did get a brief mention of Tobias burning something 
like heart-liver-gall to cast out a demon before marrying his wife. 

The story of the silkie reminds me of another idea: that Tobias 
somehow bound Eileen to him. I remember looking for stories of 
mortals overpowering witches but didn't find any...except for the 
silkie story.

And a third Half-Baked Plot: Because JKR often describes characters 
in animal-like ways, some list members (that is, not just me) 
considered different animals that have oily fur or feathers as part 
of their normal condition as one way to describe Snape. Seals came 
up, as I recall. (As did a host of others.)

HBP---Half-Brained Potioncat