[HPforGrownups] re: Black Names/Counter-Jinx/Hate at 1st Sight/Headmaster...

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 154290

 
In a message dated 6/24/2006 9:13:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
catlady at wicca.net writes:

What I  dunno
about is Madam Puddifoot: Puddifoot is not a normal given name, but  it
is not a normal surname either.


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Sherrie here:
 
It is a perfectly normal surname - if you're a Hobbit.  I KNEW  I'd seen that 
name before (it's been a while since I've reread the trilogy - ask  me about 
Gettysburg names, I'm better at that! <g>).  In  the first "book" of FotR, the 
Puddifoots are listed as a Hobbit family  that lives in Stock and the Marish; 
their name is supposedly derived from  "puddle-foot", a reference to the 
marshy nature of the land they inhabit.   IIRc (sorry, too lazy to go get my Red 
Book), the name is noted among the guests  at The Party.
 
JKR claims to have read Tolkien only once... <g>
 
Sherrie


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