[HPforGrownups] roman mythology link with dumbledore and minerva

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 10302

Star wrote:

> on topic, I knew minerva was from Roman myth but didn't realize the stuff about Albus, just shows how good of a writer J.K. is being able to slip that sort of thing in.

I really honestly still think that the person most surprised with all the repercussions and connections with the names which we have found would be JKR. I still think part of her genius as a writer is the ability to pick names out of the air that are perfect, that "feel" right, that work, even without consciously realizing why. She's just good at it, in the same way that Shakespeare (or whoever)
was a genius at creating real, believable characters who stand up to modern psychoanalysis. He was just *good* at it.

--Amanda