Cauldrons and Bill Weasley

[gingersnape1966 <gingersnape1966@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50979

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, ArtsyLynda at a... wrote:
> Carolyn wrote:
> 
> > what do the students do with their cauldrons 
> > once they get to school?  It's not very practical to think that 
they 
> > carry their cauldron around with them until Potions class, 
because 
> > cauldrons are heavy.

Me:  I had assumed that they were like band instruments were when I 
was in school.  You have your own and you store it in the bandroom.  
If you need another one, (i.e. yours is getting repaired, you share 
with a sibling who has a concert,) you borrow a school horn.  

Lynda wrote:  
> As for Bill/Bilius Weasley -- well spotted!  I hadn't noticed that 
myself.  
> :->
> 
Me:  I hadn't either!  But the replies got me thinking.  Most people 
were asking who would name a kid Bilius.  Others countered that if it 
were a family name, it would be logical.  
So what I spent half the night at work contemplating:  What is 
a "common" name in the WW?  Many seem to have what we would call 
common (James, Peter, etc.) while others have unusual ones (Marvolo, 
Gilderoy) regardless of whether they were pureblood or muggleborn.  
What *really* got me going was the "-us" names:  Albus, Rubeus, 
Mundungus, Arsenius, Lucius, Remus, Sirius, Filius (reported to be 
Flitwick's first name in a JKR interview), Severus, Dedalus, 
Cornelius, Bartemius (two of 'em!), Argus, Vindictus, Flavius (FB)and 
Barberus, Magnus and Quintus (all QA).  That's not to mention the 
common names:  Seamus, Marcus and Augustus!  With all that in mind, 
who's to say Bilius isn't a "common" name in the WW?    

Ginger, who extends a very big thanks to Steve and the Lexicon for 
completing her list and preventing the mental explosion that would 
have surely followed had one been missed.