Long post - Hermione: '79 or '80? (Was Re: School cut-off date)

[A.J.]

No: HPFGUIDX 109730

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "allison_m_otto" 
<allisonotto at g...> wrote:
> kids or parents seeing "101 Dalmatians" knew that the name of the 
> mother dog, Perdita, is also from "The Winter's Tale"?).  

Actually it was from a 'lost' character who didn't make it from the 
book to the movie-- Pongo's wife was Missus in the book-- but I agree 
that Hermione's parents may well have known their Shakespeare in 
naming her, rather than alchemy etc.!

A.J.