SPOILERS Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: JKR's website

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 149355


On Thursday, March 9, 2006, at 10:29 PM, Tonks wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat4001" <zarleycat at ...>
> wrote:
> >
> > The other thing that interested me was that the page that came up
> as  a Scrapbook reward for revitalizing the lily mentions "The
> Fates"  and "The Furies" in the margin.  Perhaps this is an avenue
> to follow.
> >
>
> Tonks:
>
> The dictonary says this about the Fates and the Furies:
>
> 1.      Furies Greek & Roman Mythology. The three terrible winged
> goddesses with serpentine hair, Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone, who
> pursue and punish doers of unavenged crimes.
>
> 1.      Fates:
> a.      The supposed force, principle, or power that predetermines
> events.
> b.      The inevitable events predestined by this force.
> 2.      A final result or consequence; an outcome.
> 3.      Unfavorable destiny; doom.
> 4.      Fates Greek & Roman Mythology. The three goddesses, Clotho,
> Lachesis, and Atropos, who control human destiny. Used with the.
>
>
> [Middle English, from Old French fat, from Latin f tum, prophecy,
> doom, from neuter past participle of f r , to speak. See bh -2 in
> Indo-European Roots.]
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> The part about punishing doers of unavenged crimes bring to mind the
> unavenged crimes of the murder of the Potters. And the fates
> mentions "prophecy". Sounds like the way that LV will get his just
> due. ????
>
>
>
>

kchuplis:

I was looking at an OoTP Easter Egg and I think the folks that don't 
think Lupin/Tonks are the real thing will be disappointed. Looked to me 
like she had to cut some passages that were related. Saw a couple of 
places where she had written Remus/Tonks. I had to laugh at the thought 
of "Hothoofs" for Buckbeak.