flowers

[ar_hp03]

No: HPFGUIDX 72718

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "idlerat" <idlerat at y...> wrote:
ratty:
<snip>
"hello! Poppy, Lavender, Pansy!" post.  I
> knew there were some I had logged in the past and then
> forgotten--Myrtle and Fleur were the ones.  Didn't know about 
Parvati
> and Padma's first names (last sounds like "Petal").  But the poster
> who started this thread did show pretty conclusively that all those
> Black sister names were flowers, whatever else they are.
<snip>

> >  Don't stop at Moaning Myrtle, by the way. What about *Pansy* 
> > Parkinson? *Lavender* Brown? *Parvati* and *Padma* Patil (someone 
> > mentioned pre-OoP that both of these meant "water lily" 
or "orchid". 
> > Can't remember which), and of course, *Fleur* Delacour,

Now Me:
Parvati and Padma are common Indian(Hindu) names and Patil is a 
fairly common Indian surname/lastname. However only Padma is the name 
of a flower. Its means Lotus in Sanskrit. Parvati and Patil are not 
related to names of flowers in anyway though Patil does sound close 
to "petal" in English

~~AR