about those Evans girls' names

[absinthe at mad.scientist.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 13569

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> wrote:
> My wife just made an interesting observation. She pointed out, when 
I 
> mentioned that Lily and Petunia's names were both flowers, that 
> Malfoy's mother's name is ALSO a flower (with a letter or two 
> changed). Now wouldn't it be interesting if Narcissa Malfoy's maiden 
> name was also Evans...
> 

The Victorians had a "language of flowers" where each flower was given 
some meaning. 

According to this web site 
http://www.pioneerthinking.com/flowerlanguage.html Petunia 
can mean resentment.

:-)Milz