[HPforGrownups] Re: Missing Weasley Children - Names

[rosie]

No: HPFGUIDX 40669

Andrea said:
"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."

Ok, you're absolutely right. I was just going on the basis of Ronald > Ron and that the Weasleys seemed (to me) to be a family who would give their children standard (if you see what I mean) names but use affectionate diminutives on a day-to-day basis - you're right though, this was just my own subjective perception :)

Even so, if we assume that the names used are all the characters' actual names... there isn't much of an alphabetical name thing going on really. B, C, P, F, G (and it could well be G, F), R, G...

I like the theory but I'm not sure that the alphabetical naming thing is strongly supportive of it. The other evidence is, imo, much more compelling (eg Mr Weasley's explanation of how scary the Dark Mark is)

Rosie






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