Give a dog a bad name

[Barry Arrowsmith]

Some firm views being expressed re: Lupin at  the moment.
These and a name mentioned in an off-site mail from Rebecca garnering  
opinions on certain aspects of Draco (yep; I'll give it some skull  
time, promise - but just now I'm flitting about like a leaden  
butterfly) brings me back to a line that I've ranted about previously.
Names.

IMO the only excitement likely to be forthcoming about Remus is who  
he really is.

It's too fantastic that his parents would give him a name so  
apposite, so fitting, for someone who years later would contract a  
specific incurable disease.
I've muttered into my beard before that it must be his nom de chien,  
assumed when his medical condition (and pariah status) became  
evident. Otherwise it'd be the equivalent of a RL individual being  
named Bitz Dropoff and later contracting leprosy.

Then there was Rebecca's mail - in which she mentioned Fenrir Greyback.
Bugger me! Another one!
One is bad enough - but two!?!
Another werewolf, both of whose names have wolfish associations.
Now come on. Are we expected to swallow the idea that werewolves are  
preferentially attracted to those with lupine cognomens? Do they flip  
through the WW population census searching for suitable victims?  
"Felix Scratch, no... he's due for feline leukaemia; Bodley Harm,  
no... he's gonna get Crucio-ed; ah! here's one! Cubby Loup! Yes, he's  
gonna be one of ours. Next full moon."

Or are their respective parents gifted with prophetic foresight and  
thus able to make appropriate arrangements when naming their to-be- 
afflicted-sometime-in-the-future offspring?

It's generally accepted that Jo takes a great deal of care in  
choosing names. What about in the two werewolf characters? Has she  
indulged in a little premature nomenclature? Foisting ludicrously  
prophetic and descriptive names onto cast members? Or is it something  
we should take note of?

Here's an outside possibility - when entered into the Werewolf  
Register, werewolves are given new, descriptive names that give fair  
warning to all contacts of just what they're dealing with. A  
werewolf. It's that or lock 'em up for the protection of the public.  
Protects the family name, too.
Sound feasible?

If that is the case - just who is/was Lupin?

Kneasy