[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: An OT name question

[Maria Gromova]

Eloise wrote:
> I would say LEE-am.
> But where is there a Liam? Has he been subsituted for the even more
> problematical Seamus?
>
Thank you. From your answer and other answers I guess it's really lee-am. I
thought so, but I was confused, for it sounds ly-am in translation. And I'm
sorry if I confused you - I thought it was clear from my message that this
Liam is THE main character in an altogether different, but also excellent,
fantasy series. He is like a more experienced and learned Harry, by the
way - a humble, decent, daredevil, intelligent, well-travelled  and
scholarly, orphaned young man - Quaestor Liam Rhenford from the Liam
Rhenford and Fanuilh series. He is exactly twice as old as Harry of OotP,
and his mission is more modest than that of Harry's, but he also fights
evil, as an able investigator. I think he would be a Gryffindor. He lost his
father and manor in a petty war,  then travelled the world, was a scribe,  a
soldier,  a surgeon,  a cartographer and  a shipmaster, and then inherited
the house and the familiar of his friend, old wizard Tarquin Tanaquil, of
the town of Southwark. His newly-acquired familiar, a small, intelligent
dragon Fanuilh, asked Liam to find Tarquin's murderer. Liam began to
investigate, and earned great esteem from the local  head of the
constabulary, Aedile Coeccias.  With the help of Fanuilh Liam solved the
case and settled down in Tarquin's house near the town of Southwark. Of
course, after such an evenful life, he would be bored if he had nothing to
do, and he, aided by his familiar, continued to help Coeccias to uncover
criminals, gaining the title of Queastor, or investigator.
Maria.