<div dir="ltr">It could also be a nod to Arsene Lupin, the French answer to Raffles, and the modern anime character Lupin III.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Bart Lidofsky <a href="mailto:bart@moosewise.com">bart@moosewise.com</a> [HPforGrownups] <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:HPforGrownups@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">HPforGrownups@yahoogroups.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 1/14/2017 10:11 PM, Karen Lewellen <a href="mailto:klewellen@shellworld.net">klewellen@shellworld.net</a><br>
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> 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<br>
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Bart:<br>
Given her predilection for pun names, I am assuming that Remus is for<br>
the legendary founder of Rome who was raised by a wolf, and Lupin is for<br>
"lupine", or wolf-like. Just like Sirius is also known as the "dog star".<br>
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