Epilogue: What about FRED???

[Barrie McB]

No: HPFGUIDX 172835

 "carodave92" <carodave92@> > wrote:
> >
> > While it's nice that Harry and Ginny named their children after
> > Harry's parents and Dumbledore with a nod to Snape...what about
> > FRED???


That was my initial reaction too - What about Fred?  Then I
started thinking about the names my own parents had chosen for us.
We aren't named after anyone from my parents' generation, we are named
after family members from the generation prior to them.  Myself after
my father's favorite Aunt and my sister after my maternal
Grandmother. And this holds true for the choices that JKR made on
behalf of Harry and Ginny.

So perhaps one could argue that it's going to be up to George's
children to use Fred.

I'm fortunate that my family hasn't lost any family members to
tragic, untimely deaths, but perhaps JKR feels it's too soon for the
name to be used in this generation and more appropiate for it to be
used in the next generation.

BMcB from Minnesota