[HPforGrownups] Rose & Hugo, was Re: Ron's Kids names

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 176102

>
> > Bruce:
> > > Someone--I'm not sure--suggested that Hugo was after the French
> > > writer VICTOR Hugo (an allusion to Krum) and Rose was to Mme.
> > > ROSEmerta.
> >
> > Juli: Do you think Ron would accept to name his child after Hermione's
> > ex-boyfriend? Or that Hermione would allow Ron to name her daughter as
> > Ron's teenager crush? I don't see it happening, not in a million years.
>
> ivogun wrote:Oh I see it happening--except I think Rose was named for
> Fleur. Ron thought he was
> going to get away with something naming his daughter Rose. Fleur is in the
> family now, so
> it's not good to have a big fight.  Leave it to Hermione to get even by
> naming her son
> Hugo.  Ron may not have made the connection, since Victor Hugo is a muggle
> author. Love
> it.


montims:
Is this another Brit/US thing?   Because I don't get it - I have lots of
friends in England who have children, and I have (naturally) worked with
many others.  And in all of those cases, when the parents were thinking of
baby names, they were choosing names that they liked, often from a baby
book.  I have never known anyone who named their children AFTER someone
else.  It happened in the past, according to literature if you wanted Great
Aunt Bessie to leave you all of her money...  And in Italy, in my husband's
family, it followed naturally through many generations that Vincenzo's first
son was called Giuseppe and his would be called Vincenzo, ad infinitum,
making it very confusing and necessitating many nicknames on the Beppe,
Beppone, variety.

But really - when people in the real world have children, do they really
name them after somebody they know, or do they just pick their favourite
names???  Can the WW not do the same?  Particularly if the children seem
likely to spend a lot of time in the muggle world (viz. Ron's driving
lessons, and their muggle grandparents, now safely restored to the UK)


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