Snape as Head of Slytherin, wand woods

[Gabriel Rozenberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 30636

    kichong wrote:
>Lily Evans Potter's wand: Willow.  The Chinese bodhisattva Guan-Yin holds a 
>willow twig in her hand that symbolizes sacrifice and cycle of life and 
>death.

>Yep, I'm familiar with Guanyin, I've read a translation of "Journey to the 
>West" (fascinating).  To bring everyone up to speed, Guanyin (in Journey) 
>is a protector of sorts to the story's protagonist (the Monkey King), a 
>lesser god coming in aid of mortals.  How this relates to Lily Evans Potter 
>is anybody's guess, but I thought it wouldn't hurt you to know.


<delurk> Hi. I know that JKR has said that Lily Potter's maiden name was
Evans. But do people on-list think her married name was really Lily Evans
Potter? I know that this style has become the norm in the US (Hilary Rodham
Clinton, etc) but in the UK it is still pretty unusual for women to turn
their maiden name into middle names when they marry. They tend to just swap
surnames or increasingly not change them at all. Certainly it would have
been v unusual for Lily to have done so in the late 70s. (Even more so her
staid, no-nonsense sister.)

Gabriel

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