Re Weasley Christian names

Lee dee_dolly7 at yahoo.ca
Wed Aug 13 22:30:39 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 77003

*snip*
> Wasn't Percival one of the knights of the Round Table, and Mr. 
> Weasley's name, of course, is Arthur. (Though actually I think the 
> suggestion that Percy is short for Perseus much more thought- 
> provoking). You would think, if they were going to use an old 
family 
> name, they would have given it to the eldest son, not one half way 
> down the list. Interesting that Percy who is  always regarded as 
the 
> odd one out in the family should be the only one with a magical 
name.

All the Weasley males seem to have royal names

Arther
Bill (short for William)
Charley (for Charles)
Percy (Percival)
Ron (Ronald)

They are all royal names.

Molly and Ginny I'm leaving off here as Molly isn't short for 
anything that I know of, but could possibly be a royal name. But 
Virginia is, lol!

Lee





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