What about Riddle? I know he doesn't use it, but still.
Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.
'Out Of Gas'
The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
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-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
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
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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.
Hil R. - Oct 17, 2007 7:38:25 am PDT #3029 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Nearly Headless Nick? OK, "de Mimsy-Porpington" isn't quite French, but it's got a "de" in there. (And yes, I know I'm reaching here.)
(Also, I'd say that "Lupin" is just as French as "Malfoy" is.)
Trudy Booth - Oct 17, 2007 7:41:17 am PDT #3030 of 3301
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I thought of Lupin and Malfoy both as Latin... but I'm a linguistic troglodyte.
megan walker - Oct 17, 2007 7:53:50 am PDT #3031 of 3301
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I thought of Lupin and Malfoy both as Latin... but I'm a linguistic troglodyte.
I always thought of Lupin as derived from Latin since I didn't even realize it was a plant in either language. However, mal, foi, vol, mort, étrange are all common French words. Voldemort has an obvious meaning as a French expression (or, rather, not that obvious, since it could mean "flight of death" or "theft of death"--both of which = cool).
beekaytee - Oct 17, 2007 7:55:37 am PDT #3032 of 3301
Compassionately intolerant
"theft of death"
Death Eater...makes a lot more sense all of a sudden.