Thought some of you may enjoy the read - I just came across
this essay on Dumbledore that pleased me greatly. The facts are nothing new to us, of course, but they're outlined in a lovely cohesive discussion of his many flaws that fans tend to excuse or overlook
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I don't think DD did bother to do anything. We never got any indentation that the great Dumbles tried and failed to break the curse. Or tried changing the class to get around the cures.
It would have been nice to see something showing Ginny had an input on her children's names. Like James being James Arthur. We do get Lily Luna - but were Ginny and Luna really that close? Why not Lily Molly?
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I remember an excellent fanfic re-do of DH in which Harry’s second son was named Arthur S. Potter. It was left up to the reader to decide what the middle initial stood for. And yes, he was a Slytherin, but it was not any sort of “issue.”
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When I try to do my family tree it seems like reusing name use to be more common. There would be a large family like the Weaslys for example and you would see Bill having children - including an Arthur and a Molly in some form. Than Charlie have a large family - children including an Arthur and a Molly in some form. Than Ginny having a large family - including an Arthur and a Molly in some form and so on. Than they have different nicknames in the family they go by. It than gets to be the challenge of figuring out which of the similar names is which person.
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OTOH Ashkenazic Jews avoid having living people with identical first names in the family (especially if they are in different generations) in order not to confuse the Angel of Death - the fear is that a child might die when it was time for the older relative to die.
(All these superstitions are a reminder that not-too-long ago people did not take it for granted their child would live to adulthood.)
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It seems they died during the last year of the war - so after Harry was born and so, obviously after the Twins were born.
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Ignatius Prewett appears on the Black Family Tree, he married Lucretia Black, Orion Black's sister, thus he was Sirius' uncle (by marriage). This is why Molly and Sirius are considered 'cousins by marriage'.
I think Charlie would have been named after Molly's father, but I am surprised nobody is named after Arthur's father (Septimus, according to comments on the Black Family Tree), they go directly to Molly's uncle. Maybe Molly dominated the naming in their family.
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Does anyone know on which side of the family Uncle Bilius was?
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The one "Ignatius" I can recall from canon is Ignatius Peverall, a.k.a. the Third Brother who asked for Death's invisibility cloak.
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In fact, I think this is my new headcanon. The third brother in the story had been called Ignavus, because the original message of the tale was that living your life in hiding is a cowardly act, not a noble, philosophical one. A publisher belonging to the Potter family slipped a name-change into an edition of Beedle back in the 18th century that went on to become the most popular version of the book, and the headstone in Godric’s Hollow is a 19th century re-creation by Potter antiquary.
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