[HPforGrownups] Re: Not All Weasley's are Weasley's

[Irene]

No: HPFGUIDX 102022

Mandy wrote:

> Bill (William), Charlie (Charles), Percy (Percival), Fred (Fredrick), 
> George, Ron (Ronald) and Ginny (Ginerva) are strong English names.  
> Even the German and French ones are now though of as very English.  
> Most are royal names.  To me they are proof that the Weasleys are a 
> solid working class family.

That's interesting, because I was reading Weasleys as an impoverished 
nobility. The wizarding world Bennetts, or Dashwoods if you will. Just 
with lots of boys instead of girls. :-)
The only thing I can base this feeling on is, strangely, Malfoys attitude.
Their animosity (Lucius to Arthur, Draco to Ron) is the sort of 
animosity you display to an equal. There has to be some long history 
between these families, or I will be disappointed. Compare Draco's 
attitude to Hagrid - he can't be bothered to hate him on the same level 
as he hates Ron, because Hagrid is not even on his social  radar, he is 
more of a servant that forgot his position.

Irene