24 Harry Potter Easter Eggs And Details You Probably Missed

2. The Magic Of Words

Famously, the Mirror Of Erised is Desire spelt backwards, which is why you see in it what you want, not the person that you are in the present. But Rowling went further than that with her wordsmithery and number Easter Eggs. The number that Mr Weasley uses to get into The Ministry Of Magic '62442' spells out 'Magic' on the keypad. And then there's Remus Lupin. Anyone with a good grasp on history and language could have spotted what was going to happen with his character, thanks to the two big hints in his name. Firstly, there's the fact that he's named after one of the twin founders of Rome (the other being Romulus), who were said to have been raised by wolves - which is no accident. And of course, anyone with knowledge of Latin will tell you that Lupin is a derivative of Lupus (or wolf), and that "lupine" continues to mean "wolf-like". So he might as well have been called Wolfboy Wolf.