names

fruhu iwant12 at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 28 17:48:17 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 45878

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:

> Freya wrote:
> 
> << But anyway I wonder why JKR has made some of the character names 
> so obvious, like Hooch, Sprout, Albus... 

> Is Hooch an obvious name? Please explain it to me. 

My mistake. Hooch is in no way an obvious name - I mixed it up with 
something else.
> 
What I don't 
> understand, either way, is why the wizarding folk haven't yet 
> NOTICED how meaningful the names are, and e.g. figured out that 
young 
> Hogwarts student Remus Lupin was a werewolf as soon as the readers 
> did. The other thing I don't understand is how all this destiny 
stuff 
> gets along with JKR's preaching of free will. 

Good point. This is what I meant was annoying actually... Duh. Sorry 
I was unclear about it.

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