Nicknames

[erisedstraeh2002 <erisedstraeh2002@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48404

Audra wrote:

> I was under the impression that Harry and Ron were nicknames 
> already (for Harold and Ronald). 

and Pip!Squeak responded:

> Harry doesn't have to be a nickname for anything - it's the older 
> English pronunciation of Henry and is a perfectly proper name in 
> it's own right. 

Now me:

In Chapter 1 of PS/SS, Uncle Vernon thinks to himself "Come to think 
of it, he wasn't even sure his nephew *was* called Harry...It might 
have been Harvey.  Or Harold."  So canon supports the position that 
Harry and Harold are distinctly different names.

~Phyllis
who was always called "Phyllis," except by her three brothers