[HPFGU-Movie] Padma and Parvati

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 9:52 PM +0000 9/11/02, pk_dawson wrote:
>
>Or
>maybe Padma and Parvati are just two interesting Indian names that
>JKR liked? Any ideas?

I teach at a school that has a fairly large Indian and Pakistani 
population, and Padma is a fairly common girl's name there.  Parvati 
was probably chosen because it went with it, as the names are 
mythologically related.

That doesn't, of course, mean that Rowling _hasn't_ read Rushdie's 
book - just that it probably wasn't the primary inspiration . . .

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