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

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Finchen Said : (editted)
> > BTW who would name their son "the white" (=Albus) or Lucifer 
> >(=Lucous) or dragon (=Draco, it's Latin!).

More response to the naming issue in HP- I've been looking at other 
uses (scientific, literary, etc) of the names Rowling's chosen for 
her characters...

Draco - constellation in the sky, whose basis comes from the dragon 
that Hercules defeated in a battle at a mythical garden

Minerva - Literary allusion to Wisdom, Wise

Hermione - female version of Hermes: the Messenger....I saw this as 
fitting as she often delivers "messages" or answers in class, and 
serves as go-between 

Harold - child warrior (I think this was a reference from a 
Shakespeare play but cannot quite remember)

Malfoy - Mal=evil, foi~foe 

Percy - (again, I apologize as I cannot remember the book this 
allusion stems from) referred to someone who abandoned/parted ways 
from their family

There are more out there too...I was just skimming book on literary 
allusions and found MANY names used in Harry Potter.
I wonder if these help her shape the personalities of her 
characters??? 

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