The name 'Kendra'

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 179355

> Catlady:
> > Which I think is a very pretty name, but I wonder when it was 
> > first used by Muggles. I suspect it was not used by Muggles until
> > after Albus's Muggle-born mother was born and named Kendra. 
> 
> Ceridwen:
> -<snip>-
> 
> I'm glad you brought this up.  That name for the proposed time, 
> dragged me right out of the story.  I never knew anyone named 
> Kendra while I was growing up. 

Mike:
Curious. A good friend of mine, from my AF days, had an older sister 
who was married to and had a daughter with Ken Stabler, the Oakland 
Raiders quarterback. They named her Kendra.

So, I was pulled out of the story momentarily because I knew of 
someone named Kendra, and you were pulled out because you didn't know 
anyone named Kendra. Seems JKR couldn't win using that name for Mrs 
Dumbledore.


> Ceridwen:
> I notice things like that.  My name comes from the Welsh legendary 
> cycle, but it wasn't used as a first name until the mid-1800s, then
> there was only one instance.  I've been asked if I'm part of a 
> Welsh nationalist movement, or if my parents were, because of my 
> name (the answer is no).

Mike:
No, but I know you're part of a secret witches coven that's trying to 
overturn the 1692 statute of secrecy, Ceridwen. By the way, how's 
that new wand working out? Sassafras with Thestral core, isn't it?
 ^-~