Harfang Longbottom?

[Eustace_Scrubb]

Eileen Rebstock wrote:
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> Harfang Longbottom? Like Home of the (Not So) Gentle Giants Harfang?
> What exactly was this fellow up to to get slammed with a name like 
> that from Narnia-familiar JKR? Luring Muggle guests in and eating 
> them for the Autumn Feast? 

Eustace_Scrubb:
Perhaps Neville has some giantish blood in his ancestry?  Wonder if
Godric's Hollow is anywhere near the City Ruinous?

Anyway, I also note that "le Harfang des Neiges" is French for snowy
owl, at least according to a couple of online sources
(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/harfang and 
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Harfang)

I wonder if JKR is familiar with that meaning?  I suppose she just
thought marrying a Narnian-derived given name and a Hobbit-derived
last name was fun!

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb