Canon Veelas WAS Re: More thoughts on the Elder Wand subplot - Owner?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 187543

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kamion53" <kersberg at ...> wrote:

kamion:
> just wondering when the female spirit is called a Veela ( first declension noun in Latin) should the male version of it then be called
> Veelus or Veelo?

Geoff:
My Latin grammar would suggest Veelus (second declension). I'm not 
sure whether any reference to male Veelas is made in canon but on odd 
occasions when I've been idly flicking through fan fiction and found 
obscure AU fiction involving these creatures, they've usually been 
referred to as "male Veelas".

Mark you, your average (decent) fan fiction writer probably hasn't met 
any Latin whatsoever.

As Professor Kirke muttered to himself in "The Lion, the Witch and the 
Wardrobe" - "I wonder what they *do* teach them in these schools?"