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

[Mandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 102265

> 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....


Mandy here:
No, but that poor aristocratic family had better marry money quick or 
risk loosing their standing. A title or name will help a child marry 
into a rich family looking of connections and social acceptance, but 
if they are not successful that family will be doomed to marry poorly 
and eventually be bred out.  

The Weasleys ancestry could eventually be disregarded, even though 
the family could always remain pureblooded, if the society they live 
in, the WW, chooses to shut them out.  After years of shunning the 
aristocracy of the WW, the Weasleys could eventually work their 
family's name out of the WW equivalent of Burk's Peerage.  It takes a 
lot of time, work and money, to maintain ones position in the social 
elite of society and if they doesn't work to achieve that, now matter 
how pureblooded they are, they will eventually be shut out. The name 
would die even if the puriety of blood remains.  Which, I think is 
what has happened to the Weasley name already

The Weasleys have shown that they do not care about power and wealth 
and social promotion and have made no attempt to ingratiate 
themselves to those in power to maintain a high profile as a 
pureblood family.  Arthur points out to Malfoy, and us, in CoS that 
he has a very different idea of what makes a good name in the WW. 
Arthur is more interested in hard work and down to earth solid 
values.  He simply does not believe in sucking up to those at the 
top, whoever they may be, in order to maintain a good family name.  

If anything the Weasleys have done everything they could to not 
maintain ties with those holding the power. (Why would they want to 
when you look at who is at the top?)  Associating with muggle borns, 
supporting Dumbledore, working tirelessly to support relationships 
with the Muggle world.  Every one of these things has worked against 
the Weasleys to shut them out of the top social class of the corrupt 
WW.  And the Weasleys couldn't careless.  All except Percy of course.

Mandy