names - Percy and Ginny / Percy Weasley

[Jocelyn Grunow]

No: HPFGUIDX 104847

Kneasy <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

> I did a post on it about a year ago (when I was fresh and innocent)- 60583.

Thanks Kneasy!  Nice post - seems pretty significant to me!  I particularly
liked the following:

>In a not very gentle age, the Percys in particular were renowned for their
>pitiless brutality. For three centuries the battle cry of "A Percy! A Percy"
>was the equivalent of "No Quarter!" The word 'mercy' did not seem to exist in
>their vocabulary.

>The Nevilles, though no push-over, had a better press.

>Both being ambitious, proud and touchy, they did not make good neighbours and
>the bickering and occasional warfare became a traditional emnity.

Oh, and BTW - there was some talk a day or two ago about the name Ginevra,
but I never saw mentioned that it can be a variant of Guinevere.


Cathy Drolet at cldrolet at s... wrote:

> I live with the person who JKR could have used as a model for Percy. My
> 'Percy' would NEVER go back to the family after making such an idiot of
> himself. He has too much to apologise for and simply would not lower himself
> to say 'know what folks, I was wrong." No courage.

Hmmm. Well the omens, if what we have been discussing about names is true,
are not good for him returning manfully to the Weasley fold. I hate to
think that the hat was so wrong, but after all, it is just a hat! *G* I
wonder why it _didn't_ put him in Slytherin. Perhaps his ambition was not
so developed at age 11.

Jocelyn