Red-haired Gryffindors

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 58647

Valky wrote:

>>By the way I always pictured Godric gryffindor with Red Hair.<<

Not at all unreasonably. I went hunting and came across a nice little 
conversation in a book where the fact that a character had red hair was relevant to 
some other characters' motivations. It's fiction, so I don't know how accurate 
it is. But there's a good chance that the author did research it rather than 
make it up. In any case, it's enough to let someone who wants to try to sort it 
out do so.

'Gruffydd is a Welsh name, a varient form of Griffin ... They were very 
literal in the old days, ... 'Griffin' also means the same thing as the Celtic 
'Griffith' and the Greek 'Rufus'... They all mean 'red-haired'."

So we have Godric "Gryffindor" which might just possibly have been a simple 
"name-by-physical-trait" way of calling him Godric the re-headed.

-JOdel


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