Dumbledore's names

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 104731

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pandrea100" <pandrea100 at h...>
wrote:
> > > Potioncat (with regard to Albus Percival Wolfric Brian 
> Dumbledore):
> > > I just happened to wonder, is there a reason a person would have 
> 4 
> > > given names?
> 
> I think it's just for comic effect ... all those grand names and 
> then 'Brian'!  
> 
> However I did wonder whether Percy Weasley was named after him - the 
> Weasleys are reasonably good friends with Dumbledore, after all.
> 
> Pandrea


For what it's worth, we learn in OoP that Percy is Percy Ignatius
Weasley, so Percy isn't short for Percival. The names have separate
histories and derivations (though admittedly the Weasleys might not
know that).

Carol