Remus Lupin's name

[christy callahan]

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Eric Oppen <technomad at intergate.com> wrote:
>> While Remus Lupin's name gives clues to his inner wolf, it 
could be read in other ways.

The most famous "Remus," after all, is the twin of Romulus, 
the legendary founder of Rome.

When I first read PoA, I halfway expected the Big Surprise to 
be that Remus Lupin's twin Romulus was a DE,or something like 
that.

Come to it---we really know very little about Lupin's early 
life. Could he have been one of a pair of twins? Maybe Fenrir 
Greyback ate Romulus Lupin. (This would be a good question to 
ask Herself, if someone gets a chance.) <<


Christy:
OMG, I was just going to tell you all about this, because we're 
studying it in history.
   
  Remus and Romulus were supposed to be killed as babies because 
they were royal blood and could eventually overtake him, but the 
king had pity for them since they were related to him, distant 
cousins or something. So instead of letting them drown, he sent 
them down the river in a basket. The basket ended up on a bank, 
and Remus and Romulus were adopted by wolves, becoming feral 
children until age 3 when they were discovered by a farmer.

   The twins were raised by the farmer, and he then came to find 
that the twins were of royal blood. Romulus began to build a stone 
wall at age 11 to protect the farmer's house because he was afraid 
they would be killed to prevent rallying against the king. Remus 
didn't help Romulus build the wall because he was lazy, as Romulus 
was a very concentrated, hard worker. Remus would taunt Romulus 
and tell him how stupid the wall was. Eventually, Romulus murdered 
Remus for his insipid comments. This story is all a myth, but it 
didn't stop the Eternal City from being named Rome, after Romulus.

Christy