[HPforGrownups] Names

manawydan manawydan at ntlworld.com
Tue Aug 5 18:56:11 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 75515


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T M Sommers:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "junediamanti"
> > <june.diamanti at b...> wrote:
> >>(gets book):Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
> >
> > Ah, but Brian makes me think of King Brian of Knocknasheega, the
> > king of the leprechauns in "Darby O'Gill and the Little People"!
>
> Or Brian Boru.

It sounds to me like a subtle indication that Dumbledore is a uniter  of the
various cultural and national traditions of these islands:

Albus - Roman
Percival - Norman
Wulfric - Saxon
Brian - Celtic

(Brian Boroimhe, btw...)

Cheers

Ffred

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