[HPforGrownups] Uncle Algie

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 60662

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 rayheuer3 at aol.com wrote:

> morgan_d_yyh at yahoo.com writes:
> 
> > What kind of name is "Algie"? Could it possibly a nickname for
> > Augustus?
> 
> I doubt it, "Gus" is far more commonly used, but Wizard names tend to lean 
> towards archaic British names, so Algernon comes to mind.

Yes, Algie is the traditional nickname for Algernon.

It's probably not canonically significant, but one of the main characters
in "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde is named Algie, the
role played by Rupert Everett a few years ago in the movie version.  

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"