Names / keeping secrets

[Neil Ward]

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Thinking on names, I particularly liked Dolores Jane Umbridge, which has the
same sort of nominative determinism as Remus Lupin:

Dolores is Spanish for pain/sorrow, umbrage (cf. Umbridge) means
resentment/indignation.  I suppose the Jane may be a reference to her plain
speaking and plain appearance (from "plain Jane") and not the original
meaning of "God's gracious gift".

In a moment of boredom, I also came across a note that Shacklebolt is an
heraldic symbol for "victory in war".

***

I just spoke to a 'Dobby fan' friend of mine who has started OoP and who
feels that there will be a House Elf uprising and that Voldemort will
utilise the power of the House Elves in his evil campaign.  Since he'd made
me swear to give nothing away, all I could say was "there are House Elves in
the book".  It's going to take him ages to get to through it, as he's having
it read to him as a bedtime story (how cute is that?)  Looks like I'll be
bursting to let information slip for months ahead.

Neil