[HPforGrownups] RE: Worst Harry - Snape Prowling - Name "Harry" - Dragons...

[Edblanning at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 32878

Ai-Chan wrote:

> Harry: it's such a plain name. Nothing so highly can be expected
> of such a plain boy, right?  

>It's not just a plain name, it's a very English name. Remember 
>Agincourt: "For England, Harry, and St George!" My high school 
>English teacher (in the 1971-72 school year) was a WWII veteran and 
>told the class that he had heard the soldier in English regiments 
>STILL using that battle-cry in WWII. 

It's also (from interview) JKR's fovourite boy's name, the one that she would 
have used for her own child, had she been a boy. That, she said was her 
reason for choosing it.

Eloise


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