Is JKR having fun with names?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 80219

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Robert Jones" 
<jones.r.h.j at w...> wrote:
> JKR may have gotten some names from history or myth and used some 
> just because she likes them (she has said that "Harry" is her 
> favorite boy's name), but are some of the names slightly disguised 
> versions of characteristics?  I'm thinking of the following:
> 
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> 
> Sirius Black -- he was a little too "serious."
> 
> 

Geoff:
I have been reminded in one article I read that Sirius is of course, 
the "Dog Star" and we all know what Sirius transforms into as a n 
Animagus....