Trelawney's name

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 72686

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "The Crashing Boar" 
<crashing.boar at n...> wrote:
> 
>   If you want to keep to the Greek connection, try Pythia.  The 
name comes from the title given to the priestess who delivered the 
pronouncements of the Delphic Oracle, although it might be too 
snakey, as it in turn is derived from Python, which guarded the site 
before Apollo slew it.
> 
That may well be it - I'm not too up in Greek mythology, and Pandora 
seemed suitably ominous as a name.  As for her last name, the only 
Trelawney I've ever heard of is Rose Trelawny, from "Trelawny of the 
Wells", and I doubt that that has much bearing on things.

Wanda