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This is such a pervasive style choice on her part that I cannot imagine engaging with it as being "bad" at coming up with names Like, you can fairly say it's not your bag, but the layers of on-the-nose, punny names are a feature, not a bug, of her creative process
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Now, if you want to just talk about how you can't stand the books books anymore because the creative behind them is a major driver of bigotry and human rights rollbacks in the UK, well, don't let me slow you down
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"She named the werewolf after wolves from Roman legend!" I, yes? The whole classical and medieval reference game is a whole layer of the text? She was not going for absolute realism in her whimsical wizarding world?
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I haven't read the books (started the first one, too YA to be enjoyable as an adult) but IIRC the movie framed it as a mystery. "There's a werewolf, who could it be?". So having a Professor Lupine was an odd choice - made for a very different experience depending whether you know that word
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The mystery is "what is Lupin's deal", though, and "Lupin" ends up being a meta-textual clue
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Thinking about how Sluggy Freelance mocked the obvious clues in the book by having the clues be backwards in the parody
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if i was writing a character with that name i would have them be both a werewolf and a legendary thief
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Foreshadowing and cute hints to the reader are allowed! This didn't pop into my head until today, but there's an old Mario van Peebles movie, *Full Eclipse*, where a cop goes to meet with the commander of the odd little unit he's been assigned to: imgur.com/a/LZ3wC2U
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(And yes, I know it's the *loup* that means wolf, but come on. :D )