[the_old_crowd] Names, the (K)night bus, Elements (was more names (but OT))

[silmariel]

Kneasy:
> Evocative things, names -  or they can be.
>
> Many  fans have spent long hours pondering the names with which JKR
> has graced her books. Long posts have resulted that detail the
> symbolic meanings of flower names and the like, and wondering if
> connections existing below the surface of the plot can be ferreted
> out by linking characters through the  names assigned to them.
>


Bus - thanks for sharing the experience. 

Names, unlikely  -

Sir Patrick Delaney - Roger Zelany
Sturgis Podmore -Theodore Sturgeon 
Emmeline Vance - Jack Vance

I read on TOL that Rookwook being named Algernon in the DProphet (OoP, 25) has 
been corrected in print.

With the plant for Bode, the mental state of the Longbottoms and Lockhart 
(btw, I assumed it was for Locked Heart), and the transformation in his life 
for the new werewolf child, I associated the theme with Flowers for Algernon.

Pity.

Elements -

I know 'we' are all on Tarot decks and Alchemy for matching the elements with 
the supossed (in the case of the wand for example) founder's relics. But is 
astrology (and sorry, but that's what I personally think the centaurs do when 
telling 'Mars is bright tonight', and calling it divination is quite of a 
joke) completely to be disregarded?

Just an approach, mainly because I'm not versed in astrology and I may be 
slipping miserably.

Gryffindor: Leo, Saggitaurus, Aries - Fire - The sword match those signs 
fairly well. Force, truth, courage, the surface signs of a chevalier, a 
warrior.

Hufflepuff: Tauro, Virgo, Capricornio - a Cup - Goddess Earth - the Cauldron 
of Rebirth. 

Ravenclaw: Gemini, Libra, Acuarius - Air - Wands - Words and mind translated 
to changes in the world.  

Slytherin: Pisces, Scorpius, Cancer - Water - The ring works both as power 
sign (kiss the Archbishop ring, please) and as the serpent biting his own 
tail. A great cut has been done to the school, because water is also empathy, 
imo. 

Unrelated Note -

It's me or Voldemort treats Peter as Sirius treated Kreacher?

Silmariel