Harry Potter Trivia

In Harry Potter, Professor Lupin was a werewolf. See J.K. Rowling, The Prisoner of Azkhaban 344-45 (1st American ed. 1999). In Latin, the noun "lupus" meant "wolf," and the adjective "lupinus" meant "of a wolf." Elisha Coles's Latin Dictionary (1679), p. 796 of the Google Ebook.

Also in Harry Potter, the wizard council was called the "Wizengamot." See J.K. Rowling, The Order of the Phoenix 137 (1st American ed. 2003). In old England, the "witenagamot" was the predecessor to Parliament that existed from at least 600 A.D. up until the Norman Conquest in 1066 A.D. See Henry St. Clair Feilden, A Short Constitutional History of England, ch. 3, at 89-90.