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[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190135

> Geoff:
> <snip> I didn't think that you were speculating, June. I was just
adding my two pennyworth to the question of names. My final comment
was because some of JKR's naming has been carefully worked out. For
instance, you have the humorous ones like Umbridge, Durmstrang or
Grimmauld. And those where she subtly changes the meaning of a word
as in Disillusion or Apparition. I think she must have used the town
> and regional names because she like the sound of them...


June:
She has come up with some amazing names for people, things and
villages in her books, she obviously does her homework as well as
having an amazing imagination as some of the names are made up. I
myself when I read the name Umbridge had actually misread it and
thought it said Uxbridge which is a small town in Canada that I
used to live near (however and I could be wrong I think it may
have been taken from a name in England) and have always wondered
if she had actually taken the name Uxbridge and just changed the
spelling around to come up with Umbridge. Just a thought I had
nothing to do with HP reality, lol.