What's in a name? Dumbledore....

[Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 1341

Ok, I know this subject is, well- dead, but anyway here is my take on 
it. 
 
NAME- Albus Dumbledore

Dumbledore...As we all know this means "Bumblebee". My personal take 
on this is that Dumbly, like a bee, is quiet and goes about his work 
diligently, except when anger is aroused, in which case we see his 
powerful "sting" and the full extent of his anger.

Albus...Ok that's not hard, it means white in latin.  White? The 
theories that I've heard previously usually consist of "well his 
beard is white...".  Now if I know JKR, (which BTW I don't) she had 
more up her sleeve that just the colour of his hair, but the question 
was what.

It was only when reading Penny's post about the characters being not 
just black and white, but gray (BTW many have posted this widely used 
analogy but it was Penny's post that made me think).  Ok 
so I was thinking maybe the "white" in Dumbly's name means that he 
really is completly good. Brilliant Huh? Nah!

Well anyhow this theory goes against my earliar post which was in 
agreement with Neil (the one about D. being bad) so that I now agree 
with Neil (the post about D. being good).  

Scott (who, after that last paragraph is wondering whether he agrees 
w/ Neil or not...)