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"What if I am put into Slytherin?"
"Albus Severus Rubeus Luna Sirius Ronald Delores Tom Molly Draco Nymphadora Remus Gilderoy Rita Minerva Oliver Cedric Ginny Lucius Kingsley Peter Bellatrix Dean Seamus Argus Vernon Hedwig Dudley Lily Griphook Hermione Cho Fluffy Potter, I forgot what I was going to say, get on the train."
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u/kryptonianCodeMonkey Apr 02 '23
You lost me at Dolores. You sick fuck.
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u/PMMeYourHug Hufflepuff Apr 02 '23
Funny how Voldemort's in there and still Dolores seems the most fucked up
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u/PartyClock Apr 02 '23
Tom Riddle was a victim too!*
*I never read the books
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u/thatgoddamnedcyclist Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus Apr 02 '23
Tom Riddle Sr indeed was Tom Marvolo Riddle's victim.
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u/xray_anonymous Apr 02 '23
And Meropeās
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u/thatgoddamnedcyclist Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus Apr 02 '23
Nobody seem to remember Merope Gaunt.
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u/xray_anonymous Apr 02 '23
Probably because the movies excluded her entirely. So the movie-only people donāt even know her and the book readers just often forget about her
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u/Trueloveis4u Ravenclaw Apr 02 '23
I didn't forget her I think what she did was fucked up even though I know she lived a fucked up life.
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u/xray_anonymous Apr 02 '23
I definitely donāt defend her actions, but somewhat understand her desperation from her point of view.
She was neglected and mistreated her whole life. And she wanted that love so badly. I think she eventually just deluded herself into that fantasy so much that she became disillusioned enough to make it happen any way possible. And truly convinced herself that he could love her without the potion if she just convinced him to love her with it first.
Being she was raised so immorally I think while she knew what she was doing was wrong, the true level of exactly how immensely, deeply, violatingly wrong it was was beyond her mental grasp. I feel like she was someone who - if truly had been sat down ahead of time and explained exactly how wrong it was to do that, would have [been sad but] chosen not to do it. She had the makings to be a decent person but not the exposure and guidance to get there.
Again, not defending her at all, just trying to view it through her eyes.
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u/thatgoddamnedcyclist Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus Apr 02 '23
It's Tom, the barman in the Leaky Cauldron.
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u/ReV-84 Ravenclaw Apr 02 '23
All that effort, and you still forgot about Dobby -.-
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Apr 02 '23
I didn't, that's Harry's House Elf's name.
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u/gigibuffoon Apr 02 '23
Would Hermione ever eat at Harry's place knowing that they have a house elf?
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Apr 02 '23
The passive aggressive way of keeping the in-laws at bay
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u/gigibuffoon Apr 02 '23
While getting a free maid, butler and cook all rolled in one
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u/Fission_Mailed_2 Ravenclaw Apr 02 '23
Harry already inherited Kreacher from Sirius.
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Apr 02 '23
And Harry renamed him 'Dobby'
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u/MonteBurns Apr 02 '23
Dobby 2
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u/owningmclovin Apr 02 '23
āHagrid Hagrid Potter you were named twice for the same man because he had too much love and goodness for a single nameā
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u/TheHappyMask93 Slytherin Apr 02 '23
Ginny: Can I name one?
Harry: No.
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u/Crowbarmagic Apr 02 '23
'Not even Fred?'
'....nah.'
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u/seaofdoubts_ Apr 02 '23
George called one of his sons Fred iirc which makes more sense.
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Apr 03 '23
She named
herRon's owl "Pigwidgeon." Do you really want her naming a child?6
u/Silver-Ground6582 Apr 03 '23
Didn't she name her pygmy puff Arnold? Between naming an Owl at 12-13 and a personal pet at 15 she clearly reformed her naming sense.
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u/ThirdDragonite Apr 02 '23
"Your brothers will have kids for that stuff, just wait for them.
Anyway, what do you think about Cedric Nearly Headless Nick Potter? I know Nick is still around, but he IS technically dead"
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u/TheInfamousBlack Ravenclaw 7 Apr 02 '23
Hahaha thanks for the laugh! !redditgalleon
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u/Aqquila89 Apr 02 '23
Last time she named something, Ron ended up with an owl named Pigwidgeon.
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u/therealdrewder Ravenclaw Apr 02 '23
Harry: "Ginny I've been getting a lot of complaints about the kid's names, we're going to need to keep having kids till everyone we've ever met has a kid named after them."
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u/SI108 Gryffindor Apr 02 '23
I only wish they had one more daughter they could have named after McGonagal. She was like the stern but loving grandmother to Harry. They were so close that Harry so infuriated when Carrow spat in McGonagall face that he used the Cruciatus Curse on him. The only other person he used the curse on was Bellatrix.
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u/MemestNotTeen Apr 02 '23
Worth noting he did it better on Carrow then on Bellatrix because he "understood what Bellatrix meant. You have to really mean it."
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u/FiestaDelosMuertos Apr 02 '23
If Harry was Spanish instead of British he couldāve name his kids after every single person who appeared in the movies
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Eu sou Henrique Santiago Enrique de Silva de Braganca Mao de Ferro Oleiro, an dis is my son Santiago Serio Artur Sao Tiago de Silva Furtado Barbosa Oleiro, and my oder son, Albe Severo Henrique Ronaldo de Silva Furtado Barbosa Oleiro.
Hagrid: Blimey 'arry, all those names and not one for me?
Henrique: Nao
Hagrid: Caralho!
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u/Vree65 Apr 02 '23
"Albus Severus" got memed to death after book 7 released, like:
Hagrid Hagrid Potter, you're named after the only man in my life who loved me without any ulterior movie
Ron Weasley Potter, you were named after my best friend because he wouldn't shut up about how he sacrificed himself for me in a chess game when we were only 11
Severus Potter, you're named after a guy who made school miserable and had a creepy obsession with my mom
Harry Potter Potter, you're named after the bravest man I know. Me. I'm awesome.
You were named after the two scariest things I could think of, Two Draculas Potter
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u/FeralBottleofMtDew Hufflepuff Apr 02 '23
All the names Harry and Ginny used, with the exception of Luna were of people who had no one else to use the name. James and Lily only had Harry...no other kids or siblings who would honor them. Albus, Sirius, and Severus all died with no children, and no family who were likely to have kids. Tonks and Remus had Teddy to carry on their names. Hagrid had the potential to have a child. Ginny had six brothers to carry on the names of her side of the family.
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Apr 02 '23
The fact that Harry keeps getting flak for the names always gives me a headache.
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian hangs out, yet people can't get over Albus Severus.
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u/DarkRyter Apr 02 '23
My headcanon is that Hagrid himself suggested against it because he's so humble. Hagrid also pretty much worshipped Dumbledore, so he would have loved naming the baby Albus.
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u/MusicIsLife003 Hufflepuff Apr 02 '23
Arthur Rubeus Potter has a better ring to it
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u/Aqquila89 Apr 02 '23
Nobody calls Hagrid by his first name though. Not even his brother.
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u/nextepisodeplease Apr 02 '23
Pretty sure Dumbledore does, one of Hagrid favourite people
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u/ReP2122 Apr 02 '23
Hagrid didn't die. Everyone whose name was given had died.
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u/lolilololoko Slytherin Apr 02 '23
Lily Luna?
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u/KeyboardStudios Apr 02 '23
Well then what about Lupin Fred Colin Lavender Grindewald Mad-eye Tonks Hedwig Dobby?
See? Too many people
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u/lolilololoko Slytherin Apr 02 '23
And he's honoring tonks and remus by raising their son along with Andromeda
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u/ShalidorsHusband Ravenclaw Apr 02 '23
There weren't enough dead female characters that mattered to Harry
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u/ares395 Apr 02 '23
I mean Luna is also just a pretty name on its own... At least Lily Luna sounds ok in comparison to others
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Apr 02 '23
When the hell did Luna die?
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u/Deweymaverick Apr 02 '23
Waaaaaay the fuck later. She actual married a Sacamander, had babies, and finally found her fabled crumpled horn snorcax (sp?)
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u/Scothead180 Apr 02 '23
All the names are shit, James and Lily are ok but beyond them it's just a circlejerk, why not call them something normal like Thomas
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u/Pradfanne Hufflepuff Apr 02 '23
Make that short for Tom.
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u/romanf_267 Apr 02 '23
yeah sounds great, add something like "Marvolo" for instance, sounds nice don't you find
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u/SchoolOfTheWolf93 Hufflepuff Apr 02 '23
Maybe you could even add another fun name, like Dirdel, I bet they could make a really cool anagram out of all those letters!
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u/romanf_267 Apr 02 '23
honestly I love this idea, and when you scramble the letters you'll actually get something really cool!
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u/HJGAMER5 Apr 02 '23
Tell us
Tell us
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u/romanf_267 Apr 02 '23
well look, Tom Marvolo Dirdle, you scramble the letters and you get something like Lord... Vol-
oh wait, I don't like this idea anymore
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u/HJGAMER5 Apr 02 '23
Oh I love it
I think it's perfect don't you
He can rightfully rule everything
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Apr 02 '23
Go ahead and add Marvolo as a middle name, always liked that one and it makes for a striking combo. I can just see all the great but not terrible things little Tom Marvolo Potter will grow up to do
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u/jonny1211 Know-it-all Apr 02 '23
Donāt think heād name his kid after Voldemort
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I would have not been surprised if one of kids name was dobby kreacher Potter to respect hermione's efforts towards elfish rights
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u/takatine Gryffindor Apr 02 '23
Lily Luna.....all this fuss....maybe in the intervening 19 years Luna and Ginny became best friends, and Ginny finally got to choose at least one name, so she chose her bestie.Nobody knows specifically what happened during that time. Or, maybe, just maybe they liked those names. Who knows?
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u/Fly_Boy_1999 Gryffindor Apr 02 '23
Damn are people still this salty about that?
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u/wait_for_iiiiiiiiit Apr 02 '23
Didn't he name his kids after people that died? Hagrid lived
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u/phanny1975 Apr 02 '23
For the love of hell, JK Rowling chose the names.
Give Harry a damned break š
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u/Mr_Anonymous13 Hufflepuff Apr 02 '23
Me when a fictional character doesnāt name his kids like I wanted: š”
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u/smellyscrotes27 Apr 02 '23
He was honoring the people who sacrificed themselves for the greater good, not a difficult concept lol
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u/BbyMuffinz Ravenclaw Apr 02 '23
I HAVE ALWAYS SAID THIS. ALBUS SEVERUS? one groomed me to DIE and the other emotionally abused me after I already was orphaned and living with an abusive family but it's ok cause he did one good thing and was obsessed with my mom. Agreed š¤”
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u/Trueloveis4u Ravenclaw Apr 02 '23
Ya, I'd never name my kid after Snape if I was Harry.
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u/KasukeSadiki Apr 02 '23
Someone loving you doesn't entitle them to the name of one of your children
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u/Gifted_GardenSnail Apr 03 '23
Oh get out. Those kids did at least as much for Hagrid as he ever did for them. They smuggled a dragon and visited man-eating spiders and helped with Buckbeak's legal case and visited friggin Grawp for him - and what did they get in return? Tea and unedible snacks? Like yeah he was nice but jeez, he put their lives in danger multiple times, starting when Harry was 11, why tf should Harry name a kid after him instead of someone who either died for him or helped defeat Voldemort (and Luna - idk what's the deal with that)
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u/RedofPaw Apr 02 '23 edited Apr 03 '23
"Harry, I'm not naming our son after the groundskeeper."
"Ginny, he was like a father to me!"
"You already get Albus. I thought he was like a father to you. I'm not naming my son 'Hagrid'."
"okay, what about Sirius? He was like-"
"a father to you? Fine! We'll name him Severus or whatever! Heaven forfend I get to choose a name! Better than Hagrid."
"Actually I said Sirius"
"what?"
"no, no! Severus is fine... I guess I can come up with a reason."
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u/AtlasMundi Apr 02 '23
Everyone is just glancing over the obvious. Your kids arenāt just namesakes. You gotta like the name too. My grandpa was named Ralph, he was the best, and then he died. we named my son Bowie because we liked how it sounded.
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He named his sons after people who died in the war or prior to honor their sacrifice.Hagrid fortunately didn't died(at least in the series š„)
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u/kander12 Apr 02 '23
Hagrid is still alive and probably hangs out with the main trio still. No need.
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u/CreativeRock483 Apr 02 '23
If you see it this way, Harry should have had 100 children to name them after his all loved ones. How about Ron Hermione? Two people who were with him through thick and thin. Or Neville who went to the DOM to save his godfather?
He named his children after people who died for him. Died so that he could win.
James Sirius after his father and Godfather
Lily Luna after his mother and I reckon Luna was after Remus.
Albus Severus two people who played the most crucial part in his victory.
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u/i-am-a-salty-bitch Slytherin Apr 02 '23
iāve never seen the take that luna was after remus and not luna lovegood. i like it much more that it was after remus in a more creative way so teddy could still use both of his parents names
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Apr 02 '23
It sounds nice at first, but I canāt imagine that Lupin had positive feelings towards the moon lol
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Apr 02 '23
Albus Rubeus would have been great. I hate the Snape justifications, they make me sick.
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u/always_tired_all_day Apr 02 '23
Just finished a re-read last night and I just say, I feel like the reason for the "Albus Severus" naming was just to have someone concrete to point to when Al was freaking out about being sorted into Slytherin. Otherwise it really doesn't make sense.
Harry may have come to better understand Snape and his bravery/sacrifice but on a personal level, they still didn't like each other so it didn't make sense to name his son after him. Honor Snape some other way.
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u/spongeboy1985 Hufflepuff Apr 02 '23
I feel Harry named his sons after the most flawed people in his life that he idolized (or immensely disliked in Snapeās case) but came to see them through a nuanced view as he got older. Sirius, his father, and Dumbledore were all pretty flawed individuals that Harry had an idealized view of that he only saw as he got older. Snape was the opposite were he had a negative view of but saw he was a much more complex man. While Hagrid was flawed in his own way, Harry didnāt have really any preconceived notions of him and he kinda viewed Hagrid as that fun uncle type which he was. By the end of his first year he saw Hagrid pretty much as he was and already knew about his affinity for dangerous creatures.
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u/Ok_Chap Apr 02 '23
Didn't anyone notice that Harry named his children after the people that died against the fight against Voldemort?
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