[HPforGrownups] Source of the name Bartemius

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 2992

Jim Flanagan wrote:

> > > (Perhaps the given name should
> > > have been Peter rather than Bartemius, as Peter denied *his* lord
> > > three times before cock crow -- does anyone have any ideas on the
> > > meaning of the name Bartemius?)
>
> Bartemius (or Bartimeus or Bartimaeus) was the blind man healed by
> Jesus.  I suspect that JKR has been studying her New Testament.

She was a classics major, I believe.

Peg

P.S. OT, speaking of classics majors, has anyone read _Tam Lin_ by Pamela
Dean?)