[HPforGrownups] Meeting real people with HP character names?

Mon Jan 16 14:43:02 UTC 2017

No: HPFGUIDX 193090

On 1/14/2017 10:11 PM, Karen Lewellen klewellen at shellworld.net 
[HPforGrownups] wrote:
> Really? Not Fang? Smiles. Actually, I wonder about real Lupins. That is because there is a Charles Dickens character with the same last name. One of these days I will read Harry Potter bookshelf, which discusses some of Rowling's influences. I know she loves Dickens as do I, but am unsure which books she appreciates most. Kare

Bart:
Given her predilection for pun names, I am assuming that Remus is for 
the legendary founder of Rome who was raised by a wolf, and Lupin is for 
"lupine", or wolf-like. Just like Sirius is also known as the "dog star".

Bart