Nicknames for Given Names (was: sharing an unimportant discovery ...)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 102127

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Alina" <alina at d...> wrote:

Alina:
> If I remember correctly, Percy is the version of Percival that 
commoners
> named their children because they could not give them actual noble 
names,
> but wanted something close to them. I'm sure there were messages 
about this
> years ago, but I couldn't find one through search, sorry. 
Basically, I think
> it's Rowlings' way of pointing out the difference between rich and 
pureblood
> families like the Blacks and Malfoys and the poorer families like 
the
> Weasleys.

Geoff:
Just off the top of my head without checking. The Weasleys may be 
poor, but they are a pureblood family aren't they?

Poverty doesn't equate with standing. There are lots of aristocratic 
families in the UK who have become poor through various circumstances 
but doesn't remove their ancestry....