Telling Names (Was: RE: Lupins name. Just a silly thought.)

[Lady Macbeth]

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Finchen Said :
>>> I just think it's a telling name (stylistic feature of literature).
BTW who would name their son "the white" (=Albus) or something that has to
do with Lucifer (=Lucous) or dragon (=Draco, it's Latin!).
Maybe it was just some kind of a weird kind of taste for Lupin was of course
the childs last name...
BTW JKR uses some funny last names (Dumbledore = bumblebee in old
English).<<<

Lady Macbeth:
I agree that a lot of the names are probably "telling" names, but I'd make a
small correction to your post.  "Lucius" is a common Roman name, and was in
fact the name of several prestigious Roman figures, including emperors.
It's derived from the Latin "lux", which means "light".  "Lucifer" is
derived from "lux ferros", or "fire light".

By the same token, many of her last names appear in the same manner.  Just
as "Lupin" refers to the wolf aspect of Remus as much as his first name
does, there may very well be more to be learned about other characters by
their last names.  It's pretty common knowledge that "Malfoy" is derived
from "mal foi", or "bad faith", but to whom does the bad faith apply?

-Lady Macbeth


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