Is JKR having fun with names?

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No: HPFGUIDX 80233

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- 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:
> > 
> >
> > 
> > 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....

Correct. And there's Remus Lupin (as in Romulus and Remus, brought 
up by a wolf and Lupine, wolflike), and "Umbridge" (as in "taking 
umbrage") and "Malfoy", bad faith, etc. There's is something almost 
Dickensian about her use of names.

Sue B