[HPforGrownups] Remus Lupin's name

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No: HPFGUIDX 160706

Eric:
> 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.)

Sarah:
I'm afraid it's been asked.

http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/rumours_view.cfm?id=9

"Professor Lupin has a twin

No, but this obviously sprang from the fact that Lupin's Christian
name (Remus) comes from one of the mythical founders of Rome who had a
twin called 'Romulus'. (They were raised by wolves, incidentally)."

Both werewolves we've met so far have dead giveaway names.  Either
they were doomed from birth, they had to change their names after they
were bitten, or it's just one of those things.

Sirius Black and Rita Skeeter are no picnic either.  How come Potter
and McGonagall get to be animagi and have such incognito names?

Sarah