[HPforGrownups] Re: MacNair

[Snuffles MacGoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 6971

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> -- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Simon" <simon.branford at h...>
wrote:
>
> > "Walden Macnair - Disposal of Dangerous Creatures"
>
> Why was a dishonest sadist/bully like Macnair given the
> good-connotation name of Walden?

1. (unlikely) maybe he turns good later on?
2. Maybe she doesn't like Thoreau? Wasn't he a bit like the french fellow who's 
name I can't spell (hah! Add that to a long list!) ;little Emile and I can't 
remember what the girls name was, Anyway the point I am attempting to get to is 
that Thoreau (and the french fellow) were both people of their time and some of 
their ideas can be sadly disappointing to a modern reader.

storm

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Subject:	[HPforGrownups] Re: MacNair

I take it that the "good-connotation" is the word's connection with
? If so, then I think the answer is that "Walden" would have
no such association for the majority of UK readers at least and
possibly that JKR chose it out of her collection of interesting
sounding words without wanting to make any wider reference.The only
time I've ever seen Walden mentioned on the UK is in passing
references in the Doonesbury comic strip.I wouldn't call Thoreau a
widely recognised figure over here either.



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