Star Gazing

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 154051

> Ken:
> > Rowling often uses a heavy dose of whimsy in her place and character
> > names. You have to wonder how she avoided the temptation to use 
> > the star name Zubenelgenubi as a character name.
> 
> Geoff:
> She obviously had a stronger will than Douglas Adams when he created 
> Slartibartfast in "Hitch hiker's guide to the Galaxy".
> :-))
>

Ken:

Yeah, I bet you can't say that five times real fast! One of Douglas
Adams' principles of good SF writing was "Don't destroy the Earth in
Chapter One, you're going to need it later!!", which he invented after
he had violated it. Could we say the same about killing off your best
wizard in Book Six?

I've looked at solar system moons and asteroids and I still don't find
Narcissa. I think she is one of the Blacks with non-astro names.

Subaru did not treat Merope as badly as I feared. The Pleiades group
includes father Atlas and mother Pleione as well as the seven sisters
(Alcyone, Electra, Maia, Merope, Taygeta, Celaeno, Asterope). Merope
is the fifth brightest overall and the fourth brightest sister so I
guess we can assume she is one of the six stars in the Subaru logo
after all. If nothing else this discussion has given me nine good
choices for a vanity license plate for our Subaru Forester....

Ken