[ SECRET POST #2696 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2696 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

My only problem with the names is, did Harry and Ginny really have to name 2/3 of their kids after both of Harry's parents? Not only are there the inevitable incest connotations, it just looks selfish of Harry.

[(Anonymous)]

Ginny's parents are alive, Harry's are not. So that could be a factor.

[(Anonymous)]

Incest connotations? Huh?

[(Anonymous)]

I share your confusion. What incest connotations?

[dancing_clown]

*Gasp* A couple that had sex shares names these two siblings have! That must mean the siblings will totally be boning each other in the future! /eyeroll.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh. . . I get it. I didn't think of that.

Hm.

[(Anonymous)]

That's really stupid.

[dancing_clown]

Yes. Yes it is.

[(Anonymous)]

No it just means it's a very strange idea to me that anyone would choose to give two of his own kids who are siblings an association with two people who he remembers as a married couple.

[dancing_clown]

Yeah, I think this is just a you thing.

[tasogare_n_hime]

People who think that naming your children after your parents, or other relatives who had been married to each other living or dead is somehow incestuous really creeps me out. It's honoring relatives! Why do you have to insert the fact that the people they were named after were in a sexual relationship!? That has NOTHING AT ALL to do with it!

Disclaimer: No I'm not named after anyone at all let alone a relative, the concept is just disgusting and pisses me off.

[(Anonymous)]

For any given pair of names, it's probably statistically inevitable that some people with those names have had a sexual relationship. In the case of James and Lily, common English names, the number of couples is probably well into the thousands at least. (And in the wizarding world, the James and Lily population probably saw an increase after The Tragedy). So no point in worrying, I guess.

I would think it was kind of weird if a parent named their kids "Tristan" and "Isolde" (or Adam and Eve, who went to my grade school). But relatives who happened to be married to each other? *shrug* That's nice.

If James and Lily Potter were primarily famous in the Wizarding world for their erotic correspondence, then sure, it would be icky. But naming a couple of kids after your parents seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

[tasogare_n_hime]

I wonder if people who think it's incestuous would also think that somehow someone naming two of their sons after their grandfather, and then their father in any order means Grandad jr. is destined to act like he is Dad jr.'s father, even if Grandad jr. is the younger son.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I read a biography of John Harrison, the English self-taught clockmaker who invented the first sea clock. The biography noted that getting information about the guy's early life was difficult because the extended family had at least a half-dozen people across three generations, including multiple cousins with the same name living in the same county.

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair though, that's wizarding tradition.

[ceebeegee]

Ginny has SIX BROTHERS. Plus parents, plus extended family. Harry has shit, and always has--not even grandparents. It's obvious why Ginny agreed to name the kids after LIly and James.

[(Anonymous)]

If I have a son, he's probably going to be named for his father, because it's a name that's been in his family for generations and he cares about keeping it going, whereas I have no family names that are important to me.

It's really not selfish if the people involved talk about it and come to a mutual decision. Also, your notions of incest are...really, really weird. By your logic, naming my son after my husband will have incestuous implications, which is completely ridiculous.