Lupus is the Latin word for wolf. Remus’ last name is Lupin.
And the namesake of his first name was mythically suckled under a wolf.
Which is French for “steal something valuable in the most obvious way to show people how smart you are”.
Might I introduce you to the works of Maurice Leblanc and his most famous character, the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, codifier of the phantom thief trope.
He would sent a message telling his victim that he planned to steal their most valuable treasure, and then would leave a letter behind afterwards explaining exactly how he did it.
Mostly known outside of France today from his appearance as Joker’s initially Persona in Persona 5, and his Franco-Japanese grandson, Lupin the Third.
He sounds like a real smartass
Oh that must be who Pierre Despereaux in Psych is based on. https://psychusa.fandom.com/wiki/Pierre_ Despereaux
Should have named him lapin, made him a French wererabbit.
Add an ‘e’ to his surname and it’s English for ‘wolf-like’. Which makes you wonder whether his parents changed their name after Remus got bitten, or whether they intended for him to get bitten…
I think the pottermore answer years ago was that some magical parents consulted a seer about what to name their child. Doesn’t really explain the last name Lupin though…
It’s been so long, I don’t remember. Was it ever said he was bitten, or could it be inherited? Like “Potter’s” ancestors were probably… potters. And Smith’s ancestors, smiths. Schumaker is German for “shoe-maker.”
European surnames tend to be a rather transparent history of ancestral occupation.
Yeah, I think it said he was bitten as a baby or a young child.
Edit:
Lupin paused and then said. “It was greyback who bit me.”
“What?” Said harry astonished. “When- when you were a kid you mean?”
“yes. My father offended him. I did not know for a very long time, the identity of the werewolf who attacked me; I Even felt pity for him, thinking that he had no control, knowing by then how it felt to transform. But greyback is not like that. At the full moon, he positions himself close to victims, ensuring that he is near enough to strike. He plans it all. And this is the man Voldmort is using to marshal the werewolves. I cannot pretend that my particular brand of reasoned argument is making much headway against greyback’s insistence that we werewolves deserve blood,that we ought to revenge ourselves on normal people.”
The real answer is Rowling is kind of a shit writer. Don’t think too hard about things, because she didn’t.
Did you know wizards didn’t adopt plumbing because it was easier to shit their pants?
Wait, what? I thought that plumbing was like the main plot point of one of the books.
Correction: they adopted plumbing, but literally no toilet tech prior to that.
Don’t think too hard about things, because she didn’t.
Especially when it comes to mathematics :)
Just like every sci-fi or fantasy character named Cassandra is legally required to be able to foretell future.
And the Wizarding World has two! Cassandra Trelawney (Sybill’s great-great-grandmother) and Cassandra Vablatsky (author of Unfogging the Future).
Frieren is great to watch as a German. Nomen est omen for everything.
Had this reaction to Kodlak and the rest of the Companions in Skyrim - vlkodlak is werewolf in Czech.
