What's in a name?????

[dreambeliever001]

No: HPFGUIDX 69287

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "D.G." <dgwhiteis at h...> wrote:
> I also caught  the "Lupin" reference [but missed the Remus one -- 
> thanks!]
> 
> There's also "Sirius" (the Dog Star) 
> 
> Quirrel (sp?), a phonetic meld of "quivering squirrel"
> 
> "Umbridge" (a pun on "Umbrage," of course") 
> 
> "Sprout" is pretty self-explanatory  
> 
> Someone has already pointed out an Alchemy connection to the 
> name "Potter"  
> 
> "Pettigrew" -- "the pet that grew"?  [maybe a back-door 
pun/reference 
> to "The Boy Who Lived"]  
> 
> To say nothing, obviously, of "Slytherin" ("slithering").
> 
> These are just a few that jump into my overtired mind right now;  
I'm 
> sure there are many others.
> 
> Shall we say, perhaps, that JKR has a Pynchon for colorful 
monickers!?
> 
> D.G. ("JazzmanChgo"), who never met a bad pun he didn't like




Also, Lupus is Latin for "wolf"  Also, some more:  Malfoy, the name 
derives from the Latin maleficus, meaning evil-doer.  Mal foi is 
French for "bad faith".  Boggart seems like it came from the 
Bogeyman.   Gilderoy, being gilded (covered in a thin gold foil)to 
make him seem like something he is not.   I can not think of anymore 
at the moment but I think there are a lot more throughout the books.