[HPforGrownups] The Gudgeon Family

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 106073

> It seems likely that there is a thread on this already, but the
> search turned up no matches.  Has anyone noticed that Lockhart's
> biggest fan, one Gladys Gudgeon, bears the same, rather unusual name
> as the boy who taunted the Whomping Willow, Davey Gudgeon?  It seems
> that the two must have some connection.  Why else would JKR use the
> same surname twice?
<snip> Gielreta

Isn't that the kind of reasoning Mark Evans theorists used? Heh, after that
fiasco I'm no longer attributing any importance to JKR's naming, I have been
disillusioned. In fact, I am 100% sure that there is no significance to
there being two characters named Gudgeon. JKR probably just forgot that she
already used the name and used it a second time. Or she just couldnt' come
up with anything else and didn't want to use Brown or Thomas for fear of
persecution by rabid fans.

Alina.