Web Site for HP Name Meanings (WAS: Harry's name)

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "erisedstraeh2002" <erisedstraeh2002 at y...>
wrote:
<snip>
> Now me:
> 
> I happen to agree with Eloise - there are a lot of names in the 
> series that have significant hidden meanings, but I don't think
Harry 
> Potter's name is one of them (although there is a James Henry
Trotter 
> in Dahl's "James and the Giant Peach" whose parents die in a freak 
> accident, is left to be raised by his two horrid aunts (one of whom 
> is bony) and discovers magic...James Henry Trotter, Harry James 
> Potter...).
> 
> There's a great web site for HP name meanings if you're interested:
> 
> http://www.theninemuses.net/hp/
> 
And as that site mentions, there was a bit character on an episode of
Monty Python named Harry Potter.

Also, P G Wodehouse wrote a story called "Mr Potter Takes a Rest
Cure", starring John Hamilton Potter. At one point, seing the horrible
Clifford Gandle approaching, Mr. Potter jumps back and hides in a
small cupboard (which, naturally, Mr. Gandle opens).

For that matter, "The Man who Gave Up Smoking", also by P G Wodehouse,
has Hermione Rossiter, and her brother George...
--Arcum