CHPDISC: HBP14, Felix Felicis

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 151879


> 4. The Slytherin team members are Urquhart, Harper and Vaisey. Any 
> thoughts on those names and what they might mean, or what images they 
> conjure? How do they compare to the names of the Gryffindor beaters 
> Peakes and Coote?

Potioncat:
Well, perhaps I was up too late when I wrote this one. But here's my 
thouhts.

Urquhart is the first name of the Wizard who invented the Entrail 
Expelling Curse. To harp on someone is to nag or to complain, to 
bother. Although that would fit better for a beater, I think. Vaisey 
looks French like Malfoy or Lestrange. I thought perhaps the names of 
the Slytherin team were supposed to sound intimidating. (By JKR, not by 
the character who put the team together.)

To be honest, it seems we get Peakes and Coote mentioned together and 
it just sort of had a ring to it...I think it's like "mind your P's and 
Q's..."

However, coote is slang for a "simpleton" and Harper is rumored to be 
an idiot. It sort of matches.