Star Gazing

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 154031

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Joe" <joemurphyus at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh@> 
> wrote:
> > Merope, according to Wikipedia means "bee mask", but I read the 
> > meaning somewhere else as "bee killer" (can't remember where)
> > 
> 
> Joe:
> This may have been pointed out before, but Dumbledore means bee in Old 
> English per JKR in an interview.

Geoff:
Specifically the bumble bee IIRC, a connection which, as you suggest, has 
been pointed out before. 

There have been suggestions on several occasions that Dumbledore may 
take the Animagus form of a bee - pointing to various instances when a 
bee has been mentioned in canon.

Perhaps OT, but in the village where I now live, there is a house called 
"Dumbledory" which I believe was the bee keeper's house at one time.