Discussion HPDH

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 190789

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, June Ewing <doctorwhofan02 at ...> wrote:

June:
> Also as someone has pointed out a lot of the unusual names
> mean some thing that describes the character ie Lupin being from the
> Latin word Lupus meaning wolf.

Geoff:
This one completely threw me when I first read POA. My reaction was 
"Why is this guy's family name the name of a a flower?"

It was only when his werewolf background was revealed that I realised 
that JKR wasn't getting his name from "lupin" but from "lupine", meaning 
"wolfish or wolf-like"