Malfoy name (drifting OT)

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No: HPFGUIDX 8990

> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Snuffles MacGoo <msmacgoo at o...> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Name: Lucius - 'Lucifer', also suggests to me light (from Latin, 
> Lux) which 
> 

Lucifer itself is an ironic name.  It means "light-bearer."  Lucifer, 
before his fall, was the most beautiful of the angels and, I believe, 
God's right-hand man.  I think light-bearer might have been 
intended pejoratively because it connects to the myth of 
Prometheus--Lucifer tried to bring light/power to humanity, and the 
gods don't approve of that.  (Whoops, I'm getting back to His Dark 
Materials again . . . & my pagan, heterodox tendencies are showing.  
Meet me on the "Prometheus Unbound" e-group, <g>.)  I might have 
dreamed up that connection.  I should put it in a sermon.

Anyway, there have been lots of names throughout Christian history 
that sound like Lucifer and sometimes the connection WAS noticed.  I 
read that St. Lucy/Lucia was neglected for a long time because of her 
name.  But even St. Luke, the Evangelist, shares a similar name with 
Lucifer!

I think JKR named him Lucius because it looks like Luscious.  Great 
raw material for slashers.  Malfoy & Sons:  purveyors of leather pants 
since 1412.

Amy Z