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[pippin_999]

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> Nikkalmati
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> I don't want to get into any trouble here.  It wan't meant as a profound observation.  I don't mean they are the only ones with average everyday names, but they form a group that stands out because their names are all unexceptional.  
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> In your list surely you would agree that Minerva and Hermione are unusual.  A range of names are not commonly seen nowadays Cornelius, Dudley (I at least have never seen it before), Narcissa, Bellatrix, Lavender, Luna, Zacharius, Phineas.  Others are rather strange: Severus. Ludo, Lucius, Sirius, Rubeus, Olympe, Draco, Regulus, Remus, Xenophilius.  There are many others that fall into the unusual or strange categories, don't you think?
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Pippin:
JKR said that she gave Hermione an unusual name because she thought people were going to find the character hard to take (not JKR's exact words, but something like that) and didn't want anyone with the character's name to be the target of teasing. 

I think JKR wanted the Weasleys to come across as likable, popular and "normal" for a family of wizards, so she gave them familiar names. Other characters, whom she wishes to suggest are strange, unusual or eccentric, are named accordingly. 

Pippin