Is JKR having fun with names?

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 80238

--- 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."

No - dog star - he was a canine Animagi 

> 
> Others might be Lucius ("Loser") Malfoy 

Lucius is a name associated with light, a name bearing Biblical 
affinities with Lucifer, "How you have fallen from heaven.." (Isaiah 
Chapter 14). The sophisticated and urbane Lucius Malfoy represents 
everything that the worldly have always associated with the 
perogatives of privilege and power, so the Lucius/loser link 
seems "forced".


  - CMC (noting, furthermore, that Draco confessed himself unable to 
come up with rhymes for "useless loser," rhyming dictionaries being 
obviously beyond the scope of magical prowess)