Alliteration, Weasling, Snape: A Greek Vampire?

[Tabouli]

No: HPFGUIDX 37371

Olly:
> There do seem to be an innordinate amount of matching names... Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, Florean Fortesque, Pavarti Patil.<

Ahh, good ol' JKR, a fellow fan of alliteration.  Actually, I can feel a sinister chuckle going on here... as Wizarding World Women apparently adopt that ol' "adopt your husband's surname" tradition, perhaps JKR is, in fact, giving us subtle clues from which to draw shipping predictions.

(sinister laughter)

Perhaps we should be matching our female characters with men of alliterative surname!  Pansy Potter, Sybil Snape, Ginny Goyle, Lavender Longbottom, Hermione, er, Hagrid... er... hmmm.  Hasty backpedalling.  Though you must admit, it would be entertaining to the entire Weasley brotherhood fighting amongst themselves to turn the sweet new third year girl into Wallflower Weasley...

Cultural aside: a lot of Australian Chinese families I know choose names with the same initial for their children, e.g. Adeline/Aaron/Anna, or Kelvin/Katherine, etc.  My theory is that this is a way of maintaining the Chinese "generation name" tradition, where same sex siblings share the first component of their two-part name, e.g. sisters called Mei-Chen, Mei-Mei and Mei-Ling.

Abby:
> Oh, I do love the Missing Weasley Child and the naming pattern 
theories, but I think there might be another problem here.  As we 
know that Ron is short for Ronald, couldn't Bill also be short for 
William (or something like it)?  It just messes up the whole thing...
W, C, F, G, P, R..?<

Eeeg, sounds like one of those alarming things they put on IQ tests: "What is the next letter in the following sequence?"

Athena:
> You can become a vampire if you are excommunicated or if a vampire 
looks in the direction of your mother while she is pregnant with 
you.  When you die - then you're a vampire.  In Greece, anyone with 
red hair is suspect.  (Only because red hair isn't common there and 
I mean to cast no aspersions toward the Weasleys!)<

Ha, more fuel for the SUAVE (Snape's Unquestionably A Vampire Evil) society!  Perhaps Snape thought he could take on Fluffy because he *grew up* amid three headed dogs in Greece, where his mother was eyed by a vicious vampire when he was in utero.  This could also explain his lank locks... he's hiding the fiery evidence of his undead heritage with Sableslick Potion.  It leaves his hair oily, but he doesn't mind, as the grease reminds him of his boyhood homeland...

Tabouli.


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