[HPforGrownups] Has anyone named a child after HP characters?

[Amber]

--- rowanbrookt at yahoo.com wrote:
> I would say that IMO that is fanatical

Brought this over from the main list because I really don't have much
on-topic stuff to say...

I think there are a lot of people whose names come from something
specific. I know my parents named my middle name Abigail after the wife
of second US president, Abigail Adams. And my brother's name Travis
came from a detective novel that my parents were reading at the time.

I don't see anything fanatical about naming someone after a character
in a book or a person in real life. Most of the time I think it's done
because the parent(s) genuinely like the name. I don't think they
expect their child to grow up like the character/person. To expect it
so, that would be ludicrous.

Of course, I don't have a kid so I can't presume to know specifically
the motives behind parent(s) choosing character names for their kids.
But I have a hard time seeing the fanaticism in it. Now the HP4GU list,
that's fanaticism! <runs away before she's pelted with worn-out HP
books>

~Amber


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