[HPforGrownups] Names - Florence/Firenze (Was: Dementors' Kiss)

[wynnde1 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 47360

Hello Everyone,

Marcia wrote:

>One last thought that has also bothered me from the beginning –
>JKR loves to give her characters interesting and telling names.  Why 
>then, has she used the name Frank twice (Frank Longbottom and Frank 
>Bryce)?  I've racked my brain trying to elucidate a connection 
>between those 2 characters and come up with nothing.  I'd love to 
>hear any ideas anyone has on this.

I agree with your comment about JKR and names, and there's another set of 
names in the story that I've long wondered about, and haven't seen discussed 
here on the list.

Florence (the one that Bertha Jorkins spied on kissing someone behind the 
greenhouses - as we learn in the Penseive scene in GoF), and Firenze the 
Centaur. Firenze is the name of a city in Italy, the same city which we call 
Florence in the English language. JKR strikes me as being well-read, etc., so 
I would be surprised if she did not know the connection between the two. So, 
is Florence a centaur herself, or does she have some connection to the 
centaurs? Or maybe she was kissing Firenze? Both of these things seem a bit 
far-fetched to me, and there's no canon I can think of at all which connect 
the two other than their names. Still, I'll be watching to see if a 
connection appears in some future book.

:-)
Wendy
(Who LOVES Firenze - the city - and would really love to live there one day. 
And who apologises to the mods for the post previous to this one - somehow I 
hit a key which sent the message before I'd even started writing it). :-)


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