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[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 117413


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:

Finwitch:
> << Wick St Lawrence, West Wick and Way Wick. (Why do these remind me
> of Flit*wick*?) >>
> 
> I think that in English place-names, Wick and Wich are alternate
> spellings of a Saxon word meaning 'village', so I assume that 
Flitwick
> was named after a place, rather than after the wick of a 
candle. ... 


Geoff:
Flitwick is a small town 7 miles south of Bedford and about 45 miles 
north of London. "-wick" and "-wich" are indeed very common as place 
name endings (sometimes pronounced with a silent "w").
 

Kelsey:
> << I get an impression that Ms. Slytherin didn't marry Mr. Riddle, 
but
> that he abandoned his witch girlfriend when she was pregnant, and 
that
> she never got over her love for Mr. Riddle, and named her son after
> him. >>

Catlady:
> This is a forbidden "I agree!" post. I like to think that Tom, 
Senior
> never did find out that his bit 'o fun was a witch, but simply had
> never intended to marry her in the first place. Because of the irony
> that if Tom, Junior had known the truth, he would have become a
> crusader against premarital sex instead of racist murderer.


Geoff:
This cropped up way back in a thread "No Sex, please, We're British" 
and I wrote the following reply in message 83700 -

(quote begins)

Perhaps I should point out that your argument is not upheld by 
evidence in canon:

"'You think I was going to use my filthy Muggle father's name for
ever? I, in whose veins runs the blood of Salazar Slytherin himself,
through my mother's side? I, keep the name of a foul, common, Muggle
who abandoned me even before I was born, just because he found out
his /wife/ was a witch? (my emphasis)'"

Tom Riddle to Harry (COS UK edition p.231)

(quote ends)

Geoff
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