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Post by Will on Jun 13, 2003 19:32:35 GMT -5
Here's one that I'd like to add:
Ludovic Bagman
"ludo" - L.: "play" "bagman" - Eng. slang: "one who collects money, as for racketeers."
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Post by aurora on Jun 13, 2003 22:48:34 GMT -5
*grins* Personally, I like Ernie Prang's name, the driver of the Knight Bus? Prang means "to crash into." Yea, that's who I want driving me place to place Cho Chang's name means "very quick thinking" in Japanese - how appropriate that she's a Ravenclaw.
How did you get the Ludo Bagman, Will?
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Post by KoNeko on Jun 20, 2003 11:30:53 GMT -5
*Voldemort means "Flight of Death" in French
also i always figured voldemort wasn't vol=flight but vol like in volition, which means will or choice. will of death. that would make more sense with jk rowling's big point that it's what you choose that matters. voldemort literally means "i choose to cause death." Well, if we go with the French meaning (where "mort(e)" means dead), I thought the Vol bit was like, from Voler, which means "to steal". Which would mean that Voldemort was the stealer of death. Which literally doesn't make sense, but he could be a stealer of souls or something.
And to get the jump on HP5:
and already:
What a great name though! The last name means "shadowing" (or, there's also a phrase that uses the word -- "to take umbrage" = to take offense) and the first name means "sorrow." I haven't found anything on "Kreacher" though.
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Post by Will on Jun 20, 2003 11:39:27 GMT -5
Dolores Umbridge is her name? And Kreacher the insult-spewing house elf... Very cool. Where do you guys find this? I feel so behind on the news...
Where did I find the one for Ludo? Why, in Harry Potter Lexicon, of course.
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Post by En on Jun 20, 2003 11:46:50 GMT -5
*extraordinarily dryly, even for En, which is really saying something*
...You don't suppose that the fact that he's insult-spewing and that his name is only one letter away from PREACHER has anything to do with it, do you?
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Post by Sphi on Jun 21, 2003 18:41:06 GMT -5
Eh...I've been reading and Kreacher certainly doesn't seem anything like a preacher. Of course, things could change near the end, but I think it's just a pun. Kreacher...creature...get it?
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Post by En on Jun 21, 2003 21:08:15 GMT -5
Heh, yeah, now that I've read the book, I think the audio-pun on "creature" is probably the best bet, and also the fact that the name sounds sort of creepy. Creepy characters need creepy names (I do agree with Dumbledore that Kreacher is what wizards made him... but... he's still creepy. :
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Post by Sphi on Jun 21, 2003 22:33:10 GMT -5
Dumbledore? I'm guessing you've already finished the book. (Boy, I wish I didn't open that one thread you started...stupid me...I read the subject and immediately went to open it anyways ...I closed it right away, but I wish I hadn't seen what I had seen...) How did you finish it so fast?
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Post by En on Jun 21, 2003 22:49:16 GMT -5
Because I am faster than a speeding bookworm and able to finish tall novels in a single night ;D
Nymphadora Tonks has such a great name If I were her, I'd go by my surname too.
I just love how many women in HP have flower names Lily and Petunia, and Narcissa is part myth and part flower. Then there's Bellatrix, isn't she a piece of work -- and her name sort of implies both power and beauty, or maybe power and poison since it could also be from Belladonna
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Post by Isbister15 on Jun 23, 2003 17:08:48 GMT -5
I just love how many women in HP have flower names *sniffle* See, that was all part of my theory about Harry and Neville being cousins. Up until now, we'd found out that Neville's dad's name was Frank, but JK'd only referred to his mom as "Frank Longbottom's wife." I was sure she was going to have a flower name and be the third sister in the Lily/Petunia/? triangle. But her name is Alice. Alice. Someone tell me that there's a flower named Alice.
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Post by En on Jun 23, 2003 17:12:30 GMT -5
Er... sorry, not that I know of, but I will tell you that "Alice" means truth -- and with his name being "Frank" -- interesting, don't you think, that both of them would be named something to do with honesty?
(I wanna know what three things they did!)
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Post by Evelyn on Jun 25, 2003 15:18:23 GMT -5
Yes, according to www.babynamelocator.com, Alice does mean truth, along with noble.
Frank-free man
Percy-I thought aht this was interesting. According to the old French, it supposedly means to "pierce the veil". However, at behindthename.com, Percy comes from Percival comes come from unknow Celtic origins and in the modified old French, it means "to pierce the valley"
Granted, the meanings change from site to site or book to book, I just thought that this bit on Percy was interesting.
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Post by En on Jun 26, 2003 9:48:33 GMT -5
Thank you, thank you, I'm En the Font of Random Knowledge, I'll be here all week
Actually, with Percy I always took that to be one of those names that just sounds like the character, you know? Like... it just sounds uppity and antiquated and a bit delicate, like he is. (Lately, I'm also wondering if the audio pun on "purse-y" has anything to do with it. )
Love that his middle name is Ignatius. Historically, there was Ignatius the disciple of John the Apostle, who wanted to be martyred (and was -- Trajan of Rome had him thrown to the "wild beasts" ) and there was Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order (which seems very appropriate -- the Jesuits were (are?) extremely highly educated and very ambitious, and very active in education and government). Both men were very ideologically rigid (not necessarily a bad thing, but can be).
The name means "fiery," which seems to suit his disposition -- and his hair.
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Post by Will on Jun 26, 2003 15:41:37 GMT -5
Mundungus...means tobacco...according to JKR.
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Post by En on Jun 27, 2003 13:05:44 GMT -5
*mentally flipping through other names* Hey, anyone find it funny that the flower known as a "Susan" is black and gold?
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