The Name Game

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No: HPFGUIDX 110068

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> Geoff:
> Yes, but... the place in my village dates from before amplifiers were 
> though of; think i'll stick with the Old English for now. At least, 
> I'll apparently be with Jo Rowling for company.

Yeah, but the brilliant thing about literature is that you don't
*have* to pick *one* thing for something to be an allusion to--while I
do believe that Jo fully intended the bumblebee allusion, I don't
think that the simple fact of that entirely rules out the possibility
of anything else being alluded to in Dumbledore's name.

Just to throw another name out there--Madame Pomfrey.  Pomme frais? 
Fresh apple?  The fact that her name has been changed to Madame
Pomfresh in the French translations inclines me to think so.  But I
find her last name less interesting that her first, given her
position--Poppy.  As in the seed from which opiates are derived. 
While not the most fasinating allusion in a name ever, considering
that she is a healer, I find it at least worth of being noted in passing.

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