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

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 102179

| From: K G
| Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 22:47 PM
| Mandy (my daughter is Amanda and we call her Manda),
|
| I am from the US (as you have been able to tell from my past
| posts).  In fact I am from the rural northern Georgia hills.  Do
| I see class differences and names?  No.  Not with me, anyway.
| When I see names such as Fred, George, Charlie, Bill, and Arthur
| I think "old fashioned" as in a couple of generations back in our
| geneology.  (my mom has traced ours back to 1600's Ireland)
| Names here are pretty much not class but heritage based.  You can
| tell from mine and my kids names (Karan, Amanda, Nicholas and
| Devon) that we are origionally from Western Europe. Names like
| "Harry" and "James" may be used as middle names to honor someones
| grandfather but you rarely see them used as "call names" (to use
| a dog show term).  I guess this is my long winded way to say that
| I, at least, see the names in a bit of a different way.

[Lee]:
With all the "baby name" books out there, people can sometimes pick the most
unusual names regardless of class.  Sometimes, they pick them for their
meaning, some names get picked because they sound cool, other kids are named
for someone's fave celeb or book/series character...seriously!  My brother,
Tracey, was named because my Mom loved a character named Tracey Steele
(don't know if that's spelled correctly), but I think he was some character
from a series called "I Spy." :-)

Suffice it to say that my poor brother hates his name because of the way
it's spelled; too many people figure he's a girl.  So he uses his middle
name and his business cards are "T. Conrad."

But, to take this back to Canon, I often wonder what Petunia and Lilly's Mom
was named?  Did she have the floral motif? :-)  Perhaps one of the next two
books will yield this information.

Cheers,

Lee :-)

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