Albus Percival Brian Wulfric Dumbldore

[Mary Jo Neyer]

No: HPFGUIDX 83593

One of the major themes of JKR is unity of the various houses.  Dumbledore's personal names reflect the various cultures of the U.K. combined in one very wise person.  Albus means WHITE, of course, but in Latin there is a distinction between bright white and bright black, which are candidus and niger, and plain white and plain black , which are albus and atra.  DD is of the plain, or non-flashy, sort of person.  Of course Alba Longa was also the Roman name for Britain, so one could say that Albus is the masculine version of a symbol of England, as well as evoking the country's Roman past.

PERCIVAL  is believed to be a drastically altered Welsh name PEREDUR, modified by French as if it were derived from Old French percer to pierce and val  valley.  Here we have the Welsh and French elements which helped form the U.K.  Of course Percival was the one perfectly pure knight who could hold the Holy Grail, sanctified by Christ's BLOOD in Arthurian legend.  Is DD godfather to Percy?  The similarity of names made me wonder about this.

Brian from a Gaelic word meaning HIGH  or NOBLE.  Beloved by the Irish because of the great 10th century high king Brian Boru.  Here we have the IRISH element of the U.K.

WULFRIC An Anglo-Saxon name meaning kingdom of the Wolf.  Since the basis of England were the Anglo-Saxons, it is only reasonable to include a name representing this element of U.K. culture.

So in DD's personal names we see the Roman, Welsh, French, Gaelic and Anglo-Saxon cultures of the U.K. all in a type of representation.

Mary Jo

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]