pretty much ALL the names are purposeful.
This is my point. All the names are purposeful, so I think it is interesting that the only time she uses French words for English characters is when they're really evil.
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megan walker - Oct 17, 2007 6:47:55 am PDT #3019 of 3301
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Hil R. - Oct 17, 2007 7:10:00 am PDT #3020 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
All the names are purposeful, so I think it is interesting that the only time she uses French words for English characters is when they're really evil.
Lupin!
megan walker - Oct 17, 2007 7:18:08 am PDT #3021 of 3301
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Lupin!
Nice try, but that's an English word!
Hil R. - Oct 17, 2007 7:21:43 am PDT #3022 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yeah, but:
n. Any of numerous plants of the genus Lupinus in the pea family, having palmately compound leaves and variously colored flowers grouped in spikes or racemes.
[Middle English, from Old French lupin, from Latin lup?num, from neuter of lup?nus, wolflike; see lupine2.]
Without an e at the end, it's just the plant name.
-t - Oct 17, 2007 7:25:05 am PDT #3023 of 3301
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What about Riddle? I know he doesn't use it, but still.
sumi - Oct 17, 2007 7:25:49 am PDT #3024 of 3301
Art Crawl!!!
Lupin is a flower, right?
Stephanie - Oct 17, 2007 7:26:36 am PDT #3025 of 3301
Trust my rage
Yes, apparently part of the pea family
Frankenbuddha - Oct 17, 2007 7:27:01 am PDT #3026 of 3301
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Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, riding through the night!/Soon every lupin in the land will be in his mighty hands!
-t - Oct 17, 2007 7:29:02 am PDT #3027 of 3301
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Lupins are the same as bluebells. Or a variety thereof. No, probably the other way around, bluebells = a type of lupin.
Eta: that didn't even occur to me as an interpretation of the name, it always came across as much more wolfy than botanical
megan walker - Oct 17, 2007 7:31:48 am PDT #3028 of 3301
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Right, but lupin is still as much an English word as it is French.
ETA: In my French dictionary, lupin doesn't have the second wolfy meaning.