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There are many amazing and really unusual names in Harry Potter's books. Have you ever thought where Rowling took them from?

Look here:

http://www.theninemuses.net/hp/

she takes heaps of them from old myths and legends and stuff, and lots of them mean things that describe them... like Hermes, the owl, hermes was a winged messenger...or something... and others that i cant remember.

hey i just went to that site
"Arthur is a possible reference to King Arthur. The World Book says, 'There are two versions of the events that led to Arthur's death. Both say he fought a war against Roman emporer Lucius.'"
NOOO!! that cant happen

Remus Lupin is obvously from Romulous and Remus, and Lupin is Wolf in Latin (I think)

remus and lupin i learnt somewhere where both latin names for werewolf
..... so phoes prob abley right! thats what i think anyway, a lot of here charecteres were based on latin and centaur;centaurion? maybe i'm just guesing now!

lot are based on French too - Fleur Delacoeur - Flower of the heart

Voldemort - Flight of Death

Malfoy - bad faith ((i think))

I'm pretty sure that's right. And Draco is Latin for Dragon

Mundungus means 'tobacco' because he always smells of his pipe

O yeah? Do you know how we call him in Lithuanian? We call him Smirdzius which means Stinker.

cool!

Can someone tell me if Harry Potter is something JK came up with herself, b/c I've heard that she got the Idea from legends and sorta added her own spin in parts that nobody really knew. Then I heard it was all her own idea. Has anybody else heard that???

she says she came up with it

Actually have any of you guys read 'Jane Eyre'? The beginning is VERY similar, evil gardiuns after parents die, went off to school, better life, very very similar, I think she got it from that. But Joanne is STILL a genius in my eyes!

yeh, except at Jane's school she got starved and burnt meals etc

did you know that if you put Tom's name in a elven name generator, you'd get: Maglor Elanesse. cool huh?

lupus is latin for wolf. theres also a wolf in the whole romulus and remus story. i know a lot of latin so if any of u want to know id be happy to answer any questions about latin!

hey, lovergirl, have ya seen equilibrium with Chris Bale in? he's so cool!

want to see more of hp actors/characters' names in elvish?

Severus was a Roman general in the battle with Claudius and Britania.

Absolutely! I have the dvd

so do we!! ((got it half price in 'previously viewed dvds' sale!!))

give me two secs, guys. I think I remember a website which had all about names... I'll try and find it again... ((coulda been mugglenet?))

found one... but not the one I'm looking for...


http://www.theninemuses.net/hp/

here we go!


http://www.mugglenet.com/


I'll try and find the name page now...

this is it!!


http://www.mugglenet.com/books/nameorigins.shtml

for those of you who are lazy, I can post a few if ya want ((just ask which name ya wanna know))


check out the whole of mugglenet tho, its v. cool

you could've edited or kept all those links in one post you know.

Dudley which is dud means a boring person in British slang. Theres A town named Dursley.

that makes sense.

actually hermes was the greek messenger for the gods, not an owl.

All Harry Potter fans should really step up to the next level and try reading the Lord of the Rings. Even if you don't fully understand it, and you won't after having been sheltered by the Harry Potter stories, you'll have grown in a literary sense and will be able to leave behind such childish stories such as J.K. Rowlings quaint little excursion into the world of witches and wizards and pursue a deeper understanding of great literature, namely the Lord of the Rings, the Silmarillion, and History of Middle Earth. Perhaps then you will see just how much you were missing out on.

just because people read harry potter does not mean they r not well versed in other areas of literature. i think thats a very unfair, very broad judgement u have placed on people here.

indeed. *glare*

i have read lord of the rings as well

did you like it?

So if Draco=Dragon I wonder if he could end up becoming an animagi and then it would be a dragon??? That would be weird...but cool.

no, i don't think he should.

WELL IT wouldn't be good to have him as a dragon...but i do think he will be an animagi....

THIS IS REALLY WEIRD....ESPECIALLY IF LUCIOUS MALFOY WILL TAKE FUDGES SPOT...OR BRING HIM DOWN

hmmm...I am not sure i actually followed a lot of this conversation...