Flowers

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 191773

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:

Potioncat:
> > 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?

Bart: 
>      There was a long-running comic strip in the United States called 
> "(Little Orphan) Annie", where virtually all the names of characters 
> were punnish clues about their real nature (my favorite was when a crook 
> named "Jed Garr" turned out to be an undercover FBI agent; "J. Edgar"). 
> I guess JKR could have been even more obvious, with a name like, say, 
> "Louis Carew", but "Remus Lupin" was obvious enough.

Geoff:
Well, JKR is renowned for punning names (or wordplays as I would call them).
A few years ago, I listed ones that I could list off the top of my head. Just as 
a reminder, here is my list of JKR's better creations:

Diagon Alley , Durmstrang, Grimmauld, Gryffindor, Hogwarts,
Knockturn Alley , Kreacher, Pensieve, Remus Lupin, Sprout,
Umbridge, Vector and Voldemort.

And it's not only persons and places. What about activities like
Apparition,and Disillusion?

..not forgetting poor old Pius Thicknesse. With a name like that, 
no wonder he went bad.
:-(