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

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 8623



Dave Hardenbrook wrote:

> 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.

But it's different when your named after a book character AND the book/author
has nothing to do with your family. I'm named Heidi. I'm named after the book.
I've never felt a particular need to galavant on Swiss mountiantops with goats
(sorry Mike!) (although when I did go to switzerlang, I wanted to go to Zurich
more than any other city simply because it was mentioned in the book)