[HPforGrownups] Re: the Fat Lady - Name

[Tasukibeth1 at cs.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 74989

bboy_mn says:

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.

Beth says:

I always assumed that either...

(a) She DOES HAVE a name, but was not officially given a name by the painter 
(What is Whistler's mother's name? What is the lady of Shalott's name? etc.)

(b) She may have been painted, but was never based on anyone in particular - 
just a painting from the imagination of the artist, but with no actual life to 
speak of, and therefore, no name

or, in my personal opinion,

(c) She has a name, but the children never bothered to find out, because they 
just don't care. As far as the children are concerned, she is the painting 
that blocks the doorway, and she happens to be on gravitationally challenged. So 
that's what they call her. I'm sure the Bloody Baron, the one-eyed witch, and 
the grey lady all have names, but no one ever cared enough to find out what 
they were.

Beth in Sacramento



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