[HPforGrownups] Re: Minding your Manors

[Maria Gromova]

No: HPFGUIDX 52746

>Ali wrote:
On a slightly different tack, it may be significant that the Malfoys
>have a French sounding surname. They could perhaps owe their name and
>property to the Norman Invasion in 1066, after which time William the
>Conqueror gave out land to Norman Followers. Old landed gentry indeed.

I always thought the same, even as I first read the name Malfoy in the book,
and Draco's snobism confirmed this. His and Lucius's snobism, their living
in a Manor, their wealth and Lucius being on the Board of Governors of
Hogwarts are consistent with this. I thought, old aristocratic family of
Norman blood. Some Norman barons woluld be proud of a name with such
meaning, too. I think it is what Rowling meant, and preety obvious to me ,
but then, I am fond of British history and literature and know them very
well.  And here are people who, with all their Norman blood, could do with a
little simple faith (Tennyson).

Maria.