Predictions & PS on Sirius

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 129055

Hans wrote:
>>I have repeatedly stated that Sirius' friends' names are significant.
I'm referring to JAMES Potter, PETER Pettigrew and Remus JOHN Lupin. 
I've pointed out that the TRANSFIGURATION (know that word?) of Jesus on 
the mount was watched by James, Peter and John. Geoff said that those 
three are the most common names in England, and that it was all 
coincidence.
[snip]
So to say that it's a coincidence that Sirius' friends happened to be 
the same as Jesus' 3 top disciples is possible, but the chances are one 
in thousands. In fact I think it's underestimating Jo's intelligence to 
say a thing like that. Everything she does is so obviously deliberate, 
so calculated (in the kindest meaning of the word) and so intelligently 
put together, that I think this whole thing is no coincidence at all, 
but deliberate. Jo is nailing her flag to the mast.<<

Rebecca:
I think the chances of a John, Peter and James becoming friends was 
pretty good. In the 1960s John and James were the 3rd and 4th most 
popular names for boys. Peter was less common, but still in the top 50. 
[ http://www.behindthename.com/top/lists/100us1960s.html - its from the 
US, but close enough, I suppose). 
Besides, if she was trying to make a religous point you are 
referencing, wouldn't it make more sense that Sirius, James, and Peter 
were watching Lupin's transfiguration? Sirius was never the only one 
changing form (while Lupin was). And on top of that, she gave Lupin the 
*middle* names John, not the first, which makes me think she just chose 
a standard sounding middle name which started with J (to go along with 
the nice-sounding 'Professor RJ Lupin'). And Lupin's middle name has 
never been revealed in the books, only in an outside interview, so if 
she's trying to make a serious biblical reference, it seems sort of 
incidental. Remember, there are a lot of readers of the HP series who 
*don't* participate in fandom. So unless his middle name ends up in the 
next two books, its a reference that'll be lost on a large number of 
the fans. 
I think the names are just common (and are common because of the bible 
actually, like all the Matthews running around), unless something more 
specific comes out in the next two books, I'd say its a concidence, and 
not even a big one at that. 


-Rebecca / HunterGreen