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

[scooting2win]

No: HPFGUIDX 78685

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "starboard_7" 
<ashleyannerees at h...> wrote:
> 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??? 
> 
> "starboard_7"

I wonder if you can put them together and give us the ending of the 
7 books, and what about Voldemort, or rather "I am Tom Riddle" what 
do the books say that Tom and Riddle mean. there is just something 
about this that is getting to me, and I don't like Riddles I can't 
answer, LOL, excuse the pun. Lori