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

[potioncat]

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> 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.

Potioncat:

You're right. That's true in real life, and I'm sure in the WW too, 
but in this case it's something that sort of jumps off the page. 
Looking at "Nineteen Years Later" you have Teddy, Lily and James all 
named after grandparents; Albus Severus named after Hogwarts 
professors; Victorie(sorry, don't have book for spelling) named for 
the end of the war; and even Scorpios named for a constellation in 
keeping with a Black tradition.

Hugo and Rose have no obvious connection with anything in the HP-WW. 
It actually made me stop and ask, "What? Where did those names come 
from?"

Come to think of it, that's pretty much what our parents said when my 
husband and I announced each of our kids' names.

Potioncat, who really enjoys threads based on topics that have no 
importance whatsoever, but are fun to argue. Whoops!