OOP? What's in a name? (Pt. 2)

[fire_fly107]

No: HPFGUIDX 68484

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mlle_bienvenu" 
<mlle_bienvenu at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jmgarciaiii" 
> <jmgarciaiii at y...> wrote:
> > I noticed that LV's "given" name is Tom Riddle. Not Thomas, but 
> Tom. 
> > HP is Harry, not Harold or Henry, just...Harry. Ron, however, is 
> > Ronald.
> > > > So why give characters (especially these two!), as given 
> > names, "abbreviated" first names?
> > >snip<
> 
>I don't know about Harry (although it's not uncommon to have that as 
a name on it's own, is it?), but I always assumed that VM's first 
name is Tom not Thomas, because in CoS, his full name Tom Marvolo 
Riddle, when re-arranged, spells I Am Lord Voldemort. I expect that 
most of the Weasleys names are shortened, Charlie is Charles, Bill is 
William. ISn't Percy's full name Percival? What do you think Ginny's 
name is short for, if anything?