Multiple Topix - names, mostly

[brooksindy]

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From: brooksindy
Subject: Multiple Topix - names, mostly
Date: 8/2/00 1:44 am  (ET)

1) Some name origin thoughts here.

Cho Chang I presume has parents of Hong Kong or Singapore ancestry who
emigrated to Britain. I was trying to place the Patil twins, and it now
occurs to me that they may be of Indian/Pakistani parentage - could some
of the UK list members comment on that?

GoF trivial spoiler:
Durmstrang.

This seems to me to be a spoonerism -type pun on the German musical style
called "Sturm und Drang" - "Storm and stress" - what good mid-late 19th
century German composers were writing.


2) In discussing my "msg 5484" hypothesis with my son (18), he points
out that such involuntary use of HP would be contradictory to JKR's "you
are what you make of yourself" philosophy as expressed to a great degree
in the books.. Good point, that. I think he's right. I had _Ender's Game_
in the back of my mind when coming up with my hypothesis, I think. Perhaps
instead, what really happened is that the other True Prophecy of Madame
Trelawney is about Harry - that he will be the final downfall of Voldemort
(perhaps including "but not as soon as it first appears" - and Voldemort
heard the first part of that and that is why he attacked Potters to get
to Harry! That is certainly in keeping with JKR's mythology knolwedge,
which a good classical education in the UK ought to give as background -
there is lots of Greek myth about babies foretold to slay other people
when grown up, so the intended victim attacks or otherwise leaves baby for
dead, but child escapes and grows up to fulfill prophecy..... and all the
protections, etc. placed around Harry have to do with Dumbledore believing
that Trelawny prophesied true for once so took several precautions. It
might work with the way JKR does things that instead of having everybody
know the prophecy at the beginning, as would happen in most other books,
it only appears at the penultimate climax to explain a lot of What Has
Gone Before.