Tonks - the name

[Katrina]

No: HPFGUIDX 83562

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "goodnight_moon5" 
<lmbolland at e...> wrote:
> 
> 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

Katrina added:

It gets even stranger.  

According to the website, "20,000 Names" (http://www.20000-
names.com/) "Nympha" means "bride" and "Dora" means "gift."

Things that make you go Hmmmm. . . .