Name Meanings (Hagrid)

cynthiaanncoe at home.com cynthiaanncoe at home.com
Fri Sep 14 20:30:36 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 26125

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Mirzam Black" <mirzamblack at y...> wrote:
> Andrea wrote:
> > You know how sometimes things will just jump out at
> > you and you wonder why you never thought of them
> > before?  Well, I had one of those moments. :)
> > 
> > I was doing a crossword puzzle, and one of the answers
> > was "rube" - an unsophisticated country person.  My
> > *first* thought (which says something about how
> > HP-obsessed I am) was, "Hey, *Rube*us Hagrid!"
> 
> I have made several nametheories.. Everyone knows this Remus & 
> Romulus -thing, and Sirius star and gatekeeper of hell -thing, as 
> well as everyone knows about Cornelius Fudge and Lucius Malfoy, and 
> the meanings of the names are very familiar to me.. I enjoy a lot 
of 
> these theories..

Uh oh.  I get Sirius star, Remus, Lucius.  But what's this about 
Sirius and "gatekeeper of hell"?  And is the name reference to Fudge 
simply that politicians are known to "fudge" the truth, or is it 
something else.

Cindy (who thought she had a handle on this)





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