Percy Ignatius Weasley

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 83531

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mary Jo Neyer" wrote:...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...The order St. 
Ignatius did institute became famous for its excellent education and 
teaching of logic...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

St. Ignatius founded the Jesuits, famous not only for education and 
logic, but also for epitomizing, to the anti-Catholic establishment 
in power at the time the wizarding wardrobe seems to have come into 
fashion, Papish superstition. It never occurred to me before, but 
maybe this is one of JKR's references. (Yeah, and the schools with 
the black-robed teachers and the repressed sexuality -- if that 
doesn't make me feel 40 years younger!) There's got to be a priest 
hole in Malfoy manor; the Weasleys, with their hoard of red-headed 
children, are stereotypically Irish Catholic; Snape is *such* a 
Jebbie, and MacGonagall *such* a Sister Mary Discipline; if Father 
Matthias Lynch from my old parish had had more facial hair (and 
humor), he would have been Dumbledore.

Anyway, there probably *is* religion in the WW: not in the sense of 
deep abiding faith or the relationship of the individual to his 
community or his God, but in the sense of where a baby makes its 
white-lace debut, or where your wedding is held, or when the stores 
are closed, or what you call the winter holiday.

--JDR