OoP: Molly's maiden name

[terryljames76]

No: HPFGUIDX 65894

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan Smith" 
<atroposgryffin at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "terryljames76" 
> <terryljames at h...> wrote:
> > 
> > A long while back on this list there was speculation on the 
> Weasleys 
> > all having old English, even Camelot-ish names--Arthur, Charles, 
> > William, etc, with maybe Percy, Ron and Ginny being nicknames for 
> > Percival, Roland, and Genevieve.  
> > 
> > Is it possible that Molly is a nickname for Morgana Lestrange? 
> > 
> > Terry LJ
> 
> In Sirius' elaborate family tree-where does Morgana fall-tell me 
mor 
> about this theory?
> 
> Susanf

Well, she could be a sister to the Lestrange that Bellatrix married, 
or just a cousin of those Lestranges.  We do clearly see that the 
old "pure-blood" families seem to be all related.  

I was trying to fit Molly in with a Camelot name and 
besides "Genevieve" this was the only one I could remember...and 
then "Le Fay" fit right in with "Lestrange". And "Molly" seems like a 
good nickname if you're stuck with "Morgana Lestrange". 

In some versions wasn't Morgana Arthur's half-sister?  Ugh...this 
could be carrying the "inbreeding" thing a bit far.  But I seem to 
recall that somewhere I read that Arthur had an affair with Morgana, 
which would seem to mean that they weren't related or else it was  
distant cousins. Again, Molly and Arthur probably are distantly 
related, based on canon.    

Now, the question then would be: Is Molly ESE?  Because I never could 
figure out whether Morgana was, either.  Every version of the story 
says something different.  I think I remember that she was estranged 
from some of her family, though.  If Molly is a Lestrange 
(and "Lestrange" sounds like "estranged", doesn't it?) and she's 
_not_ ESE, it would make sense that we've heard about "Dad's cousin 
who's an accountant" but never about Molly's family.

Of course, this all hinges on whether the Weasley family's names mean 
anything at all, besides being typically English-sounding names.

Terry LJ