[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily Potter's Name/Evans is Welsh

[rvotaw at i-55.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 44055

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> GulPlum wrote: 
>  
> At 22:52 15/09/02 +0000, karenoc1 wrote:
> >Hi!  I'm sure this must have been mentioned before, 
> 
> > but "Evans" is a Welsh name.  Do most of us connect > Wales with King 
Arthur?  And ifso, what are the 
> 
> > implications?  Or am I just reading too far into the
> >name?

Might I take the opportunity to mention that the latin word evanesco means to 
die out? :) Um, you get it?  If all of the Evans have "died out?"  As in 
apparently the only surviving Evans is Petunia.  <sigh>  I know, I'm sorry, I 
will now go slam my ears in the oven door.  And I'd been so good for so long.  
No Latin, NO LATIN!!!  Bad house elf. :)

Richelle
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GulPlum wrote: 
 
At 22:52 15/09/02 +0000, karenoc1 wrote:
>Hi!  I'm sure this must have been mentioned before, 

> but "Evans" is a Welsh name.  Do most of us connect > Wales with King Arthur?  And if so, what are the 

> implications?  Or am I just reading too far into the
>name?

Well, calling Arthur "Welsh" is perhaps a bit much, but he was definitely a Celt, as was Merlin.  

Me:
I've never thought of Arthur when I think of the Harry Potter/Welsh connection.  I have, however, wondered whether JKR wants us to think of one of the the first Princes of Wales, Henry IV or Henry V, both also known as Prince Harry.  This, in turn, made me wonder whether the final battle with Voldemort will be an Agincourt-style rout, with the outnumbered underdogs defeating the French-named enemy (Voldemort, Malfoy, etc.--although I admit that "Crabbe" and "Goyle" don't sound very French).  I also see Hagrid as something of a Falstaffian character, which makes me fear for his safety.  
 
In other words, if JKR is trying to evoke Wales, it could be for a number of reasons....
 
--Barb
 
 



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