[BanHarryPotterNow!] Re: Naming Schemes

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 37261

  From: saintbacchus 

  OTOH, it could just be that the entire Wizarding World
  (and one set of Muggles) is obsessed with giving their
  children cute matching names. 
I don't think we should put Padma and Parvati into the "cute" category, they were named after sibling goddesses and more than likely are named to honour rather than match. 

As for the fact of the rest of the Wizarding families giving matching names, maybe all wizarding families do that for the same reasons as their love for rhyming. We see several rhyming riddles in the book and Ron attempts a rhyming spell in book one (to turn scabbers yellow). I think the matching names fall into the same category of literary obsessions. Remember the name of Ron's comics? "Adventures of Martin Miggs the Mad Muggle".  The fact that the Evans family named their daughters to match a theme would perhaps suggest either a hint of wizarding blood in them or a prescient accident. They didn't *mean* for it to mean anything, it just happened to match the fact that Lily was a witch. 

I'm going to stop before I thoroughly confuse everyone. 

P.S. as for middle names, isn't it a fact that Harry's middle name is James? 

Alina of Distant Place
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