[HPforGrownups] Re: The name 'Kendra'

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 179360

Ceridwen:
Probably not.  It just didn't ring true to the times, for me.  
Myrtle, sure, though she had already used it.  Hazel, yes.  Edith.  
Clara.  Lillian.  Miriam.  I had a laugh at Hepsibah Smith, but then, I had
a cat named Hepsibah.  It's an old name, with some Biblical backing.
Something I expected in the HP series, and suitable to Ms. 
Smith's age and time.  It didn't pull me out of the story, it just put me in
mind of my cat in the same way that meeting someone in Real Life who was
named Hepsibah might.



Sherry:

I read a book that was written in the 1940's or 1950's, and the story took
place in the 1850's.  The main character's name was Kendra.  So,
Dumbledore's mother's name didn't really register with me at all.  I think
I've also known of someone named Kendra.

Actually, the name that I had the hardest time getting used to, in the sense
that it didn't seem to fit the time in which the books took place, well,
that name was Harry.  I remember thinking when I first read SS/PS, that
nobody today would name a boy Harry.  But once I first met him arriving in
Hagrid's arms, I forgot all about the name not seeming natural for that
time.

Sherry