[HPforGrownups] Dragons, Lily, and eyes

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 77212

klra2ra
> Lily's eyes are green. Harry has her eyes. This is a big deal over
> and over again. Evans is a Welsh name. The quintessential Welsh name
> from what I understand. (There is a series of mysteries set in rural
> Wales who's protagonist is named Evan Evans and people often joke
> about how truly Welsh he is.)

Evans (and similar names such as Evan, Bevan, and so on) are certainly very
common Welsh names, though the true quintessential Welsh name is of course
Jones!

Lily (and presumably also Petunia) are both Evanses, but if they are a Welsh
family living in Wales, how did Petunia meet Vernon, who seems firmly
English?

Other Welsh names are Caradoc Dearborn (first name only) and Evan Rosier
(Rosier, by contrast to Evans, is an uncommon name, though most often found
in south east Wales, where JKR went to school - the most common versions of
that name are Rosser, Prosser, and so on), not to mention Dangerous Dai
Llewellyn.

Given that JKR is actually quite sensitive to issues of nationality and
nomenclature, I don't think that the Evanses are Welsh other than by origin.

Cheers

Ffred (who has yet to read the Welsh version of PS/SS, but notes that
Neville is translated as Nefydd Llewellyn and Draco as Dreigo Mallwyd...)

O Benryn wleth hyd Luch Reon
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