[HPforGrownups] so, let's start with name choices &?

[FrogCreekWoods]

No: HPFGUIDX 192822

One name that might have been a weird coincidence was in the Order of 
the Phoenix. When Harry was talking to Dudley on the playground giving 
him a hard time about beating up a 10 year old boy, he said something 
like "I know you did Mark Evans last week". Of course Lily's maiden name 
was Evans. Maybe she meant to tie those up together or just threw it out 
there and didn't catch it. Not sure.


JKR has no equal when it comes to creating names. I was just chuckling 
the other day over how awesome Xenophilius Lovegood's name is. "a lover 
(philius) of things that are different or unusual (xeno)." She really is 
a literary genius.


I was going to ask you all - at what point during reading SS for the 
first time did you realize it was something really special? For me I 
remember by the time they were on the Hogwarts Express and the pictures 
in the chocolate frog cards moved, and then at Hogwarts when the 
portraits moved and talked, I knew it was something really different and 
amazing.


Ellie


On 11/12/2015 7:30 PM, Karen Lewellen klewellen at shellworld.net 
[HPforGrownups] wrote:
>
> I am so delighted others are up for a discussion of the books. Still 
> wondering about really reading together, but at least we can discuss 
> thoughts as I go. I have honestly forgotten how addictive these books 
> can be in truth! Well not forgotten, but it is a different degree of 
> fun when you do not have to wait for the next publication. You are 
> screaming what?, at the end..Then can reach for the next one. The 
> choice of names, the blending of the real and the perhaps fictional is 
> fascinating me at the moment. For example I had thought one very 
> important name was a fake. That is until Google did Hedy Lamar's 
> doodle the other day. Still, did Rowling ever repeat a name? Has she 
> ever talked about how she chose them? One more, what detail from the 
> first few chapters of Ss, or PS if in the United Kingdom, would you 
> most like to have seen explored more fully? I will share, but want to 
> give others a chance as well. Kare
>
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