Percy Ignatius Weasley

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 83505

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mary Jo Neyer" <maryjo at n...> 
wrote:
> I was surprised to find out that Percy's middle name is Ignatius.  
This is disclosed during the hearing conducted by Umbridge concerning 
Harry's fighting off the dementors.  I have puzzled over the 
significance of his middle name, and have a few ideas, but am unsure 
if any of them are correct.  I would love to hear what everyone else 
thinks.
> 
> 1, My hobby is genealogy, and when I find someone named Ignatius in 
my research, the name always means that the family was Roman Catholic 
at the time the name was given.  However, in the WW we don't have any 
religions, so I don't think is really relevant.
> 
> 2.  Could St. Ignatius of Loyola be somehow a model for Percy?  I 
know that St. Ignatius of Loyola was originally a soldier, and when 
he was an invalid from wounds received during battle, he read a book 
about the life of a saint, and decided to try to be a saint himself.  
Does this part of his life represent ambitious Percy?  St. Ignatius 
later said that the biggest and most important thing he had to learn 
was humility.  Are we going to see Percy humbled?  Or is he in 
reality already an undercover spy? The order St. Ignatius did 
institute became famous for its excellent education and teaching of 
logic.  Perhaps this is an indication that Percy will end up as the 
teacher at Hogwarts.
> 
> I am not fully satisfied with any of these ideas.  Does anyone else 
think that his middle name is somehow a clue?
> 
> Mary Jo

*Snort*--I just took it as a play on the word "ignoramous".  <grin>
Arya