Every Tom, Dick and Harry...

[cat_kind]

No: HPFGUIDX 117482


> > SSSusan:
> > Interesting!  And it's not just that they're common nicknames, but 
> > that they come from that "Tom, Dick and Harry" grouping.  Any ideas 
> > on who's going to turn out to be Dick, then? :-)
> 
> Finwitch:
> 
> Dick's the Half Blood Prince, I guess... now we just need to find out 
> his surname. One with a meaning since we have Riddle (in a way, the 
> prophecy is a riddle too!) and Potter (common enough, a profession 
> for making pottery out of clay).
> 
> So are we going to have Dick Blue, Dick Noble, Dick King - or maybe 
> even Dick Prince? (Would make him Prince by name! and everyone's 
> calling him by surname...)
> 
> Finwitch

catkind:  Love the theory, Finwitch. But I fear Dicks in children's
fiction may have gone the same way as poor Titty in Swallows and Amazons.