temul - (v.) signifies a sense of creativity and passion; to rush headlong, to be inspired, to have creative thoughts, and even to take a flight of fancy [Mongolian]
"And can anyone tell me which constellation we see beneath Aquarius and Aquila? Yes, Miss Carmichael?"
"Capricorn, the Goat."
"Very good. As you can see, its brightest star, Deneb Al—"
"Excuse me, Professor Wei?"
The Astronomy professor looked up to see Hugo Weasley half-standing with his hand in the air. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath and said, "Yes, Mr. Weasley?"
"Isn't Capricorn actually a mer-goat?"
"There's no such thing as a mer-goat," said Manny Laiq.
"But that's what the book says! Page 42, near the bottom," he added, as some people started to look.
"Yes, Mr. Weasley, Capricorn has popularly been depicted as half-goat, half-fish. Now, though brighter than its other stars, Deneb Algedi is fairly dim—"
"Professor Wei?"
She gave a great, slow sigh. "Yes, Mr. Weasley?"
"How did Capricorn get its fish tail? Did somebody transfigure it?"
"...Mr. Weasley, I don't think—"
"Because at first I figured someone had to transfigure a goat. But then I thought that maybe it started as a fish but somebody transfigured on the goat parts. But either way, there'd be all sorts of problems, because the Capricorn can't just have a fish's tail—it also needs gills that would have to be on the goat-half, near the lungs, and I read somewhere that transfiguring hybrids like that often have issues with their diet and—"
"Mr. Weasley!" Professor Wei flinched at her own tone, then tried to soften it. "The creature in question is not real. It is just a picture that people came up with because they thought that these stars resembled a goat. I assume the fishtail was added on simply due to it being in a part of the sky with other water-themed constellations."
"OH!" Hugo's eyes suddenly went wide. "What if—you know how hippocampi look half-horse and half-fish? What if you bred that with a goat, and—"