Tonks - the name

[goodnight_moon5]

No: HPFGUIDX 83479


<mev532 at y...> wrote:
> >
> > I love the idea of Tonks being some other character without the 
> > reader knowing it. 


Lauri:
I agree, but her name still has me puzzled.  According to the 
catholic "lives of the saints" 
http://www.ocrb.org/livesofsaints.html "The Holy Virgin Martyrs 
Menodora, Metrodora, and Nymphodora, like the Holy Virgins Faith, 
Hope, and Love, faced the brutality of a government wholly opposed to 
the one true God. In their contest we benefit, seeing in their 
victory an icon of meekness and truth which strengthens our own 
souls."

*Could* JKR be borrowing from religious tradition here? Would 
Nymphodora be "love"?  Would that have anything to do with the 
greater plotline of Love (being the thing which the MOM is studying 
and the thing which the dark lord has not)? Or would that mean she 
is "love" to one of the characters? (Shippers?) Or that she's going 
to meet a sticky end, like her namesake?  

JKR doesn't choose names lightly, each name is meant to show us 
something of the character.  Or, could JKR just have chosen an 
extremely frilly/silly name for Tonks to make her more interesting?

Lauri