Dragons, Lily, and eyes

[daelyn_duprer]

No: HPFGUIDX 77226

Hasn't it been speculated that Godric's Hollow is in Wales?  If so, 
could it be the Evan's ancestral cottage?  Perhaps way way back 
before all this mudblood bigotry the Evans and Godric Gryffindor 
were friends.  Interesting, but admittedly a very obscure connection.

~Daelyn~

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "manawydan" <manawydan at n...> 
wrote:
> 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
> Cymru yn unfryd gerhyd Wrion
> Gwret dy Cymry yghymeiri