[HPforGrownups] It's a boy, Mrs. Potter

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 8617

At 06:13 PM 1/5/01 -0500, Amy Z wrote:
>This just in:  the top 10 boys' names on this side of the pond do not
>include Harry.  (Jacob was #1 in the US in 2000.)
>
>Methinks it's only a matter of time.
>
>Amy Z.
>who is NEVER naming a kid of hers Harry.
>but "Mad-Eye" has a nice ring to it.

I've met L. Frank Baum's great-grandaugther, whose name is Dorothy.
She said that she hated feeling that she was expected to fill her namesake's
shoes (slippers?).  So I have no intention of naming my kids Harry,
Ron, *or* Hermione.



                                                 -- Dave