the Fat Lady - Name

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 74758

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dublinaaireland"
<fashionmenu at h...> wrote:
>> ... '...it ain't *over* till the fat lady sings!', and it made me
ask the question, does the fat lady in the picture frame sing?? <<
> D

bboy_mn:

Well, undoubtedly the Fat Lady could sing, but I don't recall it
happening.

As long as we are on the subject, does anyone find it odd that the Fat
Lady has never been identified? 

Every other portrait and statue in the school seems to be know by and
refered to by name, but in five books with the Fat Lady having a
speaking role in every one of them, she has yet to be identified, even
thought much more obscure, even extremely obscure statues and
prortraits have been indentified.

Wouldn't it be odd if her last name turned out to be Potter?

Now I'm sure people will reply that if she was a Potter, Harry would
have seen her in the Mirror of Erised, but I suspect in the Mirror
people were placed by generations. The youngest people in the from the
successive generations lined up behind Lily and James. The Fat Lady in
Pink could be 2 generations back, and maybe she wasn't wearing pink.

I admit that there is nothing to support this, and no real need for it
in the books. I just thought it would be a cool minor secondary
insignificant plot twist for Harry to find out he was related.

On the other hand... What's up with that? Why does such a promenent
portrait remain unnamed?

Just a thought. Not necessarily a productive one, but a thought none
the less.

bboy_mn