Harry/Henry Potter and Harry/Henry V

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 20066

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Barbara Purdom <blpurdom at y...> wrote:
> Well, that immediately got me thinking that perhaps
> Harry isn't a Harold at all, but a Henry 

IIRC JKR said in an interview that Harry's name (what I call "birth 
certificate name") is Harry, not Harold or Henry or Harrison.

I associated Harry's name with the battle cry "For England, Harry, 
and St. George", which my high school english teacher told me was 
still used in WWII even tho' it started with the Henrys you cite in 
the middle ages. Along with Dumbledore's first name, Albus, being 
reminiscent of ALbion, an old poetic name for the island of Britain 
based on the "white" cliffs of Dover as viewed from off-shore. 
There's something about the mythological background of that scepter'd 
isle, behind (until bomber aeroplanes) its ocean moats, going on in 
this HP mythos. As the island was part of the mythos of C.S. Lewis 
(Lloegres, was it?) and Tolkien.  

> And then THAT got me thinking of Shakespeare's plays

I am not as familiar with Shakespeare as I should be. People who 
are posted about 'echoes' from Voldemort's wand being the 
scene of ghosts in Richard III and Voldemort being Edmund (? an 
evil one) in King Lear. JKR probably has TONS of Shakespeare 
references whether they were consciously intended or just 
something she absorbed into herself from reading and viewing 
Shakespeare plays.

> Add to that the remarkable similarity between the
> Gryffindor flag and the flag of Wales, plus the

Umm? Gryffindor's flag is a gold lion on a red field.  IIRC Wale's 
flag is Red reptile (Dragon??? I can never remember!!!!!) on a field 
which is horisontally divided, white on top and green on bottom. 
Please explain why the similarity is remarkable.