Flowers

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No: HPFGUIDX 191768

 
> Geoff:
> Being annoyingly technical, isn't myrtle a bush?

Potioncat:
In the US it's a tree and it has a lovely flower. Googling I htink that's true in the UK too? Though it's one the types that has to be pruned or it has lots of little trunks and can be bush-like. (I don't have much of a horticulture vocabulary.) In South Carolina in the summer it's absolutely gorgeous. The one I'm most familiar with is the crepe myrtle--don't know if you have that in England, but it sort of fits our Moaning Myrtle, doesn't it?

BTW, Myrtle means love and represents marriage in some cultures.

 
> Geoff:
> Trouble is, i think JKR made a mistake here and meant to call 
> him Lupine, which means "wolf-like". I really do not see Remus 
> as a tall, tapering blue flower...
> :-(


Potioncat:
I 'knew" someone would insist Lupin was for wolf. I actually think she had Lupine in mind too--but I wonder if she was playing with the word rather than making a mistake. A flower-name makes him seem all the less threatening when we first meet him. Sort of like Quinniu[S.q]uirrell.

But I doubt that many US readers thought of the flower or the wolf---anyone out there? Did you wonder at the name before you found out he was a werewolf?