Ginevra - why is H/G obvious
antoshachekhonte
antoshachekhonte at yahoo.com
Wed May 19 04:46:43 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 98802
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> But I fully agree with Kitten on one point (I think I sniped it,
> sorry): I don't attribute any importance to the Ginevra name either.
>
> Neri
I think your analysis of the developing Harry/Ginny dynamic is, at the least,
extremely thought-provoking. Of course, as so often happens here, there are multiple
ways of interpreting the facts. And JKR has shown herself more than happy to set up what
looks like a conventional story line and then gleefully blow it up.
I'll admit the white foam/Aphrodite connection was a bit of a stretch--I was just having
fun--but don't you think that an author who has created a werewolf named Remus Lupin,
a prickly (if girly-voiced) sadist named Dolores Umbridge and a vicious, peculiar woman
named Bellatrix LeStrange might *mean* something when, after withholding a character's
full name for five books, she tells us that it is a form of Guinevere?
What that meaning might be, I certainly can't say. But there has to be a reason that she
bothered to choose that name, and then bothered to tell us on her site.
Antosha
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