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[ricardienne]

You know what annoys me? Going to the supermarket and seeing fruit that says "tree-ripened" or something but that clearly isn't. Who do these companies think they're fooling? And how can they get away with such a blatant lie?

I have been tenatively pursuing information of Aquilius Regulus (The link is perhaps not a particularly reliable source, but most of if it is straight out of Pliny, so it's probably not any more inaccurate than anything else) -- a lawyer, informer, and legacy-hunter under Nero and Domitian. Not much connection with Regulus Black, then. The accounts of gold-digging and persuading little old ladies to include him in their wills put me more in mind of Tom Riddle than anything. He seems to have lived into Nerva and maybe Trajan's reign, so no clear parallel there. Oh well.

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[kaskait.livejournal.com]

He sounds like he used to be a real charmer. :P

I noticed that Rowling seems fascinated with Roman culture when it pertains to Great Britain. She is very keen to weave that bit of history into her Wizarding World. I'm surprised she hasn't referenced Boudicca.

[ricardienne.livejournal.com]

According to wikipedia, her ghost (Boudica's, that is) is supposed to haunt Lincolnshire -- maybe she's too far south and east from the centers of Rowling's action.

But Boudica would be tricky, too, as so much of the wizarding world seems to be Romanized -- I wonder if the wizards aren't just as happy to forget about her .