[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP? What's in a name? (Pt. 2)

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No: HPFGUIDX 68495

In a message dated 7/8/2003 6:28:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
fire_fly107 at hotmail.com writes:


> 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? 
> 

Actually, there was a law at one point in England that only noble born could 
have the name "Percival" but the lower class could have "Percy."  I think it's 
to highlight the state that the Weasleys are in.



Nemi
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