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I'm still personally uncomfortable with the naming. I wouldn't say "wrong," but while I get that Harry forgave Snape for himself it feels a bit disrespectful to Neville and Hermione. That's just my personal opinion.

Well Hermione and Neville can name their kids what they like, and Harry will just have to man up and accept that. You can't go around only catering to your high school friend's opinions all your life.

Uh, there is a difference between "catering to their opinions" and naming a kid after someone who bullied them. That kind of makes you a dick friend.

If they bitched about it Harry could tell them Snape risked his life to protect them and he died to save them.

Sure he could. I still personally think it wasn't the move of a good friend. But that's my personal opinion.

If you started bitching to me about what I named my kids and telling me your views about someone trumped mine, then I'd consider you a shitty friend. Maybe Hermione and Ron were wise enough to understand what you've failed to grasp.

I said nothing about Hermione or Neville saying anything to Harry? That would be rude, and I wouldn't do that. But I, personally, would never name a kid after someone who bullied good friends of mine, and I don't, personally, like that Harry did it.

Re: Op

(Anonymous) - 2015-12-05 22:04 (UTC) - Expand

This truth.

I agree, but I'm sure Harry talked to them abut it first and would not do it if they had objections.

I don't see how this is disrespectful to anybody else. A name is a name. And anyway, it's not like Harry called his son "Severus Snape," he called him "Albus Severus."

It was the middle name of the second son. He couldn't have treated Snape's less if he'd given it to his dog. The most worthless naming position on the, traditionally, least valued child. It is the most backhanded way of acknowledging someone in your life, and short only of an outright insult. Presumably Neville and Hermione understood that.

More than he gave to Sirius lol.

He named his dog after Sirius, probably. Still better than the middle name of a second son though.

lmao, damn. I just realized.

Sirius got no love. It's like the veil obliterated him from memory, post DH.

Sirius was James' second name. Harry's firstborn was named after both James and Sirius.

Just because your parents didn't value you doesn't mean Harry felt the same.

Woow you're projecting like an old fashioned movie theater.

the, traditionally, least valued child.

I BEG your pardon? What kind of backwards-assed 'tradition' were you raised in?

Old-fashioned, upper-class, English tradition. The heir and the spare, and all that.

Sorry your parents didn't love you, it must be sad.

I am too, and unlike everyone else commenting on it, I mean that genuinely. Not agreeing with someone about how a fictional character named their child is no excuse to sneer at them about their real life problems.

The whole point of the "spare" is how valuable they are as a back-up. If you'd said "fifteenth" it would make sense.

AYRT. Listen, I'm English myself (and I strongly suspect that you aren't) and that is BS. The concept you describe is about securing inheritance, it says nothing at all about the relative value of the second son. Not to mention that the Potterverse is resolutely middle class, with one or two exceptions (Malfoys, I suppose). Please dispense with your stereotype that boarding school=upper class. It doesn't.

/tired of people confidently thinking stuff that is rubbish about British culture.

Oh go piss up a lamppost, you vile little chav.

(Anonymous) - 2015-12-08 21:07 (UTC) - Expand

Someone tell Queen Elizabeth, who is well known to favour Andrew despite his being the second son and an asshole.