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

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 Mark Evans really had the whole fandom going then. Everyone was speculating that he was related to Lily somehow, but I think Rowling issued a statement that he was a filler character.
 

 I love the stories behind the names! Not just the characters, but almost everything like the house names, potions, creatures etc, have a meaning behind them.
 

 I was a bit late in the HP Fandom, my dad gave me a copy of SS and when I liked it, he bought all the remaining books, which was up to GOF at the time. I was a lot amazed by SS but I started loving it by POA. My head was blown by the time they got to the shrieking shack. It was partly because of Book3 that I hold friendship and loyalty in such high regard. 
 

 Luirhys

 



 > Ellie (frogcreekwoods at gmail.com) wrote: 
 > 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 <
 







 
 
 



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