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

[Annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 176265


> 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.

Annemehr:

Come to think of it, JKR -- Joanne -- and her sister Dianne were both 
named after Anne, their mother.  So she would certainly be used to 
the idea.  And maybe it also shows where JKR got some of her 
playfulness with words.