Class issues in names was Re: Not All Weasley's are Weasley's

[rzl46]

No: HPFGUIDX 102016

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rzl46" <rzl46 at y...> wrote:
> 
> MaggieB:
> > An American here.  I realize that there are class differences in 
> > names across the pond.  I remember reading SS the first time and 
> > thinking that surly Aunt Petunia was mad when she called "Harry" 
a 
> > low class common name.  My own gut feeling is that Harry is in 
> > general a higher class name than Dudley, is my gut wrong?
> > 
> > Perhaps some of our British members would care to start a 
> discussion 
> > along these lines to enlighten the rest of us?
>  
> Geoff:
> Using one of my now standard openings(!), can I direct you to...
> 
> There was a short set of posts on this very topic quite 
recently.They 
> were messages: 10207-208-212-218-240-253 which I think you will 
find 
> of interest.

Thank you for setting me straight.  I feel like a heel for repeating 
a topic so recently discussed.  My only excuse is that I just came 
back to the group a few days ago.  I would like to point out, however 
that a zero was left out of the message numbers.  The first one was 
100207.

MaggieB--who admits that it was rather perplexing that a message 
written in 2001 could be described as very recent