<div id="ygrps-yiv-198723422"><div id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div></div><div class="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872signature" id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11077"><div id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11076"><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11075"><br></div></div><div id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11091"><font id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11230" size="3" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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.</font></div><div id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11091"><font size="3" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11091"><font id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11231" size="3" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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.</font></div><div id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11091"><font size="3" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11091" dir="ltr"><font id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11440" size="3" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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. </font></div><div id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11091"><div id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11098"><span style="font-style:italic;font-size:small;font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;" id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11259"><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Luirhys</span></div></div><div id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11232"><br></div></div><br> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11074"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11073"> <div class="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872y_msg_container" id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11444"> <hr id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11233" size="1"> <font id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11071" size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">> Ellie</span></b> (frogcreekwoods@gmail.com) wrote:</font>
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</div><div class="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yiv3016139884moz-cite-prefix" id="ygrps-yiv-198723422ygrps-yiv-1134180872yui_3_16_0_1_1447381682813_11445">> 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
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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. <br clear="none">
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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. <br clear="none">
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Ellie <<br clear="none">
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