What's in a name?????

[iris_ft]

No: HPFGUIDX 69531

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "D.G." <dgwhiteis at h...> wrote:
 
> "Umbridge" (a pun on "Umbrage," of course") 
Well, I'm not a native English-speaker, but my dictionary tells me 
there's the verb `to bridge", that means more or less "to create a 
connection", "to bring together". 
Could dear Dolores's name be also read as "un-bridge"," the one who 
doesn't  create a connection, who doesn't bring together, who 
divides"? If we consider the destructive part she plays in the book, 
it would fit. It would also fit with the Sorting Hat's song, in 
which it warns the students and teachers to remain united. 
  
> "Pettigrew" -- "the pet that grew"?  [maybe a back-door 
pun/reference 
> to "The Boy Who Lived"]
I think it could rather be an allusion to his mean stature, and 
especially to his mean soul, the cockroach. However, I enjoy the 
idea of Pettigrew being a pet figure in the Marauders `gang.
It would explain why he finally betrayed James and managed to make 
Sirius be accused.
It was his revenge because they had despised him previously. In the 
gang, James was the King, Sirius was the Favourite, and Remus was 
the Councillor. Peter was the Buffoon, or the pet, and James and 
Sirius treated him so (see what JKR writes in the Pensieve scene, 
concerning James playing with the Snitch and Sirius commenting 
Peter's reactions). 
The problem is that when you despise someone, he tends to feel 
resentful. Conclusion: Peter's betrayal is for a huge part the 
responsibility of James and Sirius. It fits with the topic of 
despise that appears clearly in OoP ( see: Sirius's behaviour 
towards Kreacher, and Dumbledore's comment about the statues of the 
MoM's fountain, at the end of the book).
Now we must wait and see how Pettigrew deals with Harry's 
magnanimity towards him (see PoA), and with Voldemort's despise.

Amicalement,

Iris (who promises that if she meets Hagrid tomorrow at Beaune's 
Baroque Music Festival, she will be glad to invite him to a glass of 
Gevrey Chambertin).