Weasley Christian names

[ninnamie]

No: HPFGUIDX 72689

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Emeline" <emy_vance at y...> 
wrote:
> June:
> 
> > > While thinking about the "flower" names of female characters, 
it 
> > > occurred to me that the names of the Weasley children seem to 
be 
> > > resolutely commonplace.  Other pure-blood families seem to give 
> > their 
> > > children names like Sirius or Draco.  The Weasleys have names 
> like 
> > > Ron, Percy, Fred and George.  Does this reflect Mr. Weasley's 
> > > fasination with all things Muggle
> > 
> > I don't necessaerily think so.  I remember being hugely amused by 
> > the fact that one of Dumbledore's middle names is "Brian" - all 
the 
> > others are very "wizardy" but that
> > 
> > pause
> > 
> > (gets book):Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
> > 
> > James Potter anyone?
> 
> 
> The funniest fact about names IMHO is that some muggleborn wizards 
> and witches also have strange names, like Hermione. I can't 
remember 
> if Pavarti or Lavender is muggleborn but they also have peculiar 
> names.
> 
> Emeline


Me:
Other than Hermione, what I've noticed is that except for Hermione 
the Hogwarts students who are more major characters generally have 
more "normal" sounding names: Harry, Ron, Fred, George, Dean, 
Neville, Cho, Justin, Hannah, Ernie, Pansy, Gregory, Vincent, etc.  
Parvati and Lavender are actually not such unusual names at all, even 
though they're unusual in America.

The "wizardy" sounding names are mostly people who are dead, people 
who are older, and people who are young, but snobby (the Black 
family, the Malfoy family, etc).  It seems like names provide insight 
into what a person's family is like, but can't be used to reliably 
assess that person's character (after all, we don't get to choose 
what our parents name us).

-ninnamie