Missing Weasley Children

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 40668

--- rosie <crana at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> I like the Seventh Son theory, although I do think the whole name thing
> is a little stretched. Yes, Bill might be Bilious... but that's such a
> terrible name, and most of the other names are fairly normal... so that
> leaves us with William, Charles, Percy, Frederick, George, Ronald, and
> (not sure for Ginny, although to me Virginia sounds more *likely* than
> Iphegenia!). Even if Bill is Bilious, and Percy has some other name that
> he uses as his first name, I'm not sure. If you did an alphabetical
> naming thing, it would at least make sense to start with A, wouldn't it?
> Not much point in starting at B. So if the missing son was A, then we
> still have a gap at D and E... 

Why does Bill have to have a "real name"?  Or Charlie, Fred, and Ginny,
for that matter?  I know that generally speaking those names *are*
nicknames, but it's not always the case.  For example, my three uncles are
named (legally, on their birth certificates) Jimmy, Terry, and Greg. 
Ordinarily you'd assume that they're James, Terrance, and Gregory, but my
grandmother was of the opinion that if you were going to call someone by
that name, you 
might as well just *name* him that.  Ron's the only one that we have
evidence of a longer full name.  So we might just have Bill, Charlie,
Percy, Fred, George, Ronald, and Ginny Weasley.

Let me add very quickly that I LOVE the Seventh Son theory, so don't let
this be seen as detracting from it! :)


Andrea

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