Family names /Harry's relations ( Was: OOP: Harry's FIRST COUSIN?? )

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No: HPFGUIDX 71176

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "komagata_mai" 
<irreality at m...> wrote:
> 
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Ravenclaw Bookworm 
> scoutmom21113 
> > <navarro198 at h...> wrote:
> > 
> > > Tonks' first name also comes from the Greek.  The nymphs are 
> female 
> > > spirits of nature who had the divine power of changing the 
shape 
> of 
> > > things and were often the nurses of the gods (another hint?).  
> > > (Ref:  http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/NYMPHS.html)  Does 
> anyone 
> > > know what "dora" means in Greek?
> > 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
> Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> > Nymphadora means 'gift from the nymphs' 
> 
> Tonks has the gift of changing her shape and coloring. Thus, she 
has 
> the gift of the nymphs. This is probably the interpretation of her 
> name. I dont know if one can get further information from her 
name. 
> Most significant names in HP have a pretty straightfoward meaning 
if 
> they have one at all. 
> 
> mai

This isn't too inspiring, but if her father "Ted" is Theodore, maybe 
she's named after him in part.   Theodore (and Dorothy) mean Gift of 
the Gods.   Theo like Theology.   If you could call Andromeda a 
nymph, then her name is a combination of her parents.


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