Percy (Was: My "one" most rock solid OoP prediction

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 60444

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "talisman22457" 
<talisman22457 at y...> wrote:

>  Percy's first name may be more apt in describing his individual 
> character.  Like the "pursed" lips of the lemon-sucking rulekeeper 
> he is.  Or perhaps you can find another literary or historical 
> scallywag named Percy.  Bon Chance.

"Percy" was the family surname of the Earls of Northumberland. 
Hotspur, whom someone mentioned recently while comparing Harry Potter 
to Shakespeare's Prince Hal, was Sir Henry Percy, the son of Henry 
Percy, first Earl of Northumberland.

I have a theory that "Percy" was Molly's maiden name. 
http://www.behindthename.com/ says it comes from a Norman 
place name.

http://www.bartleby.com/65/no/NorthmbHP1.html
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.  2001.
    
Northumberland, Henry Percy, 1st earl of

1342–1408, English nobleman. He fought in France in the Hundred 
Years War, became warden of the Scottish Marches, and was a supporter 
of John Wyclif. Created earl of Northumberland by Richard II in 1377, 
he and his son Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur) were engaged in constant 
warfare with the Scots. He was a leading supporter of Henry of 
Lancaster (Henry IV) in the usurpation of 1399, but with his brother, 
Thomas Percy, earl of Worcester, and Hotspur, Northumberland revolted 
against the king in 1403. He submitted after the death of his son at 
the battle of Shrewsbury in the same year. By 1405, however, he was 
plotting again with Owen Glendower and, after fleeing to Scotland and 
France, invaded (1408) England from the north with the expectation of 
recruiting followers. He was slain and his forces were defeated at 
Bramham Moor.  

http://www.bartleby.com/65/no/NorthmbHP2.html

Northumberland, Henry Percy, 4th earl of
    
1446–89, English nobleman. When his father, the 3d earl, was killed 
fighting in the Lancastrian army at Towton (1461), he was imprisoned 
by Edward IV and the earldom forfeited. He was released in 1469, 
restored to the earldom in 1470, and served the Yorkist monarch. 
Although Northumberland accepted lands and offices from Richard III, 
he withheld his men in the battle at Bosworth (1485) and submitted to 
the earl of Richmond, who was crowned Henry VII.