Padma and Parvati

pk_dawson wcdawson at optonline.net
Wed Sep 11 21:57:49 UTC 2002


I almost forgot: what makes this more interesting is that Parvati, in "Midnight's Children" is a witch; a real one who can do magic. She is usually referred to as "Parvati-the-witch".  No such luck with Padma, though.

- Patrick

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "pk_dawson" <wcdawson at o...> wrote:
> I recently started reading "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie
> for a second time, and was a little surprised to come across two
> familiar names: Padma and Parvati.  Now, these characters are not
> related, nor are the last names similar to the ones we know from
> Hogwarts. They're just two fairly important minor characters.
> 
> So does anyone know where JKR got the idea for the names of these two
> characters? "Midnight's Children" is not Rushdie's most famous work
> (that would be "Satanic Verses", for which some people tried to kill
> him), but it is certainly possible that she has read the book. Or
> maybe Padma and Parvati are just two interesting Indian names that
> JKR liked? Any ideas?
> 
> - Patrick





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