"Pottering Around"/FawkesWands/not-seeBurrow/Griffith

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 54171

Finwitch wrote:

<<  Harry Potter was pottering a flower-bed (what ever that pottering 
is), >>

'To potter around' is to rather slowly fiddle around with things, 
pretending to be working. It's usually used for people who are slow 
and largely useless for reasons of age or bad eyesight rather than for 
laziness.

<< Frank Bryce is black >>

He is? I missed that.

Anne U wrote:

<< So I'd also like to know whether Ollivander made these two wands 
at approximately the same time, knowing that Tom Riddle and Harry 
Potter *themselves* would eventually be chosen by the wands? Or did 
he make them at the same time knowing that the two wands would 
eventually choose two (as yet unknown to him) extremely powerful 
wizards? Or did he make them at different times using tail feathers 
given at different times?? >>

Canon hasn't told us, but I feel sure that he makes the wands based 
on what seems like a good thing to do with the wood and core that is 
available at the time (well, he might wait for the RIGHT wood for 
THIS core to come along) and with no idea what wizard will end up 
with the wand.

Ffred wrote:

<< if you have a house like the Burrow, it's just not noticed by 
Muggles, their vision just slides over it. >>

Except when they are driving taxies summoned by Molly ... 

<< The name "Gruffudd" (as it is spelt in Welsh) actually has an 
English equivalent - Gervaise, as well as an easy pronunciation - 
Griffith >>

I think "Gervaise" is not very similar in sound to Griffith. A name 
familar from Los Angeles's largest park, Griffith Park, which is not 
named after D. W. Griffith the filmmaker. It's named after some 
colonel who murdered his wife and arranged to have the charges 
dropped in exchange for donating his estate to the city...

GRIFFIth ap gleNDOweR = GRIFFINDOR, thought to be Gryphon d'Or

<< Finally, at the time of the Founders, Shropshire was actually part 
of Wales so the neighbours wouldn't have had any difficulty with the 
pronunciation. >>

My theory originally didn't mention Shropshire, just Saxons 
men-at-arms he joined up with for a while.

<< Godric (like Helga and Rowena) is as far as I know a name of 
Germanic rather than Celtic origin. >>

And Salazar is a Hispanic/Iberian name, now days found among all 
Spanish and Portuguese speaking nations, but originally Basque for 
"Old Hall" and the name of the Valle de Salazar in Navarre in the 
Pyrenees. So I have to make up fanfic to explain how (at least) one 
of the Founders originally had a Celtic name, and in my crystal ball 
vision it's Godric.