Names, was Re: Farmer Hagrid, hairy sisters, ...

[Joywitch M. Curmudgeon]

No: HPFGUIDX 30401

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Heather Moore" <heathernmoore at y...> wrote:
>   Indeed! I think Olympe Maxime is one of the double-pun names, 
as "Maxime" suggests both "principal" and "the most." Fancy growing 
up with a name like "Enormous Biggest"! JKR can play some very funny, 
rude, Pythonish tricks on her characters.  
> 
It's so true...JKR has so many characters who were saddled, as 
children, with names that made their future life choices inevitable, 
like poor Remus Lupin the werewolf, and countless others who have all 
been discussed here many times.

> On the other hand, I think "Fleur" itself is just another example 
of JKR's fondness for flower/plant names: Lily, Padma (Lotus), 
Petunia, Pansy, Narcissa, Rosmerta, Olive, Lavender, Lupin, 
Myrtle.... have I missed any? 
> 
Poppy Pomfrey, the nurse, and Professor Sprout.

> It could be fun to set up a listpool to guess what new flowers turn 
up in the next book - Laurel? Violet? Daphne? Hyacinth?
> 

Before GoF came out, there was a rumor floating around about Rose 
Black, daughter of Sirius, but I'm pretty sure that rumor was made up 
by a fan.

> 
> (Hrmph... on the subject of flower names, at least Americans don't 
get the inherent pun of "Heather Moore," so I never got teased about 
it growing up. Even my parents didn't realize it until it was pointed 
out to them by a British friend of mine during college. And 
now "Heather Moore" sounds like a Hogwart's student!)

And I'm willing to bet that "Heather Moore" would love to actually BE 
a Hogwarts student!

--Joywitch, who also would love to be a Hogwarts student