[HPforGrownups] Re: re:Petunia/Headmaster/LVatHogwarts/Mobiliarbus/GH/Lup...

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 158411

 
In a message dated 9/17/2006 7:52:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
zanooda2 at yahoo.com writes:

To  answer your question, Shakespeare doesn't give any names AFAIK. One
of the  witches calls another something like "Graymalkin"of the  wi
think  it's a name. I just remembered it because it sounded funny to  me.



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Sherrie here:
 
"Graymalkin" isn't one of the Wyrd Sisters - it's a cat.  One of the  Sisters 
refers to her familiar, who is obviously a gray cat (or possibly a hare,  as 
the word "malkin" was used for both).  (It also meant a slatternly or  
ill-kempt woman.)
 
(And yes, I meant to spell it that way - it's "wyrd", not "weird".   
Pronounced the same, but it means "fate" or "destiny" [lit., "that which  comes"], & 
connects the Three on the Heath with the Norns or the Fates - in  other words, 
with the Triple Goddess.)
 
I wonder if Binns ever covered that part of wizarding history in his  
classes???  After all, Hogwarts IS practically on the scene, as it  were...
 
Sherrie
(who has often wondered of the curse on That Play would be broken if the  
Wyrd Sisters were to be played by real Witches...)
 
 


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