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Both Names from the same piece of fiction?

31 replies

RainforestGarden · 12/07/2013 16:46

Hello,

We've finally agreed on a boys name that we both like. (We had a girls name picked out before we we even conceived.) We've realised however that both names (not too common) are those of minor characters in a very well-known and well-loved series of children's books (and films.) Is this a problem? Would you assume we named the siblings after the book? If the names were Ron and Hermione I wouldn't even bother to ask, but they are minor characters...

Many thanks for any honest feedback you can offer.

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Sparklysilversequins · 12/07/2013 17:07

I am a HP obsessive and I wouldn't have picked that up. It's fine.

Choccyhobnob · 12/07/2013 17:01

Depends on what they are!

RainforestGarden · 12/07/2013 17:01

It's Ariana and Cedric. Cedric being the champion of one of the other houses at Hogwarts and Ariana being Dumbledore's long deceased sister so they never go on any adventures together. If the books hadn't been quite such a phenomenon I wouldn't worry at all. (Harry Potter series that is.)

(Although we have already been forced to rule out Edmund as a boys name because the middle name is to Peter to honour FIL - I really did read The Lion, the Witch and The Wadrobe too many times as a child.)

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Theas18 · 12/07/2013 16:52

Please let it be titty and roger :)

Trills · 12/07/2013 16:49

How minor, and do they "go together" in the book?

Is there any point in the book where the phrase "name and name" is used?

TobyLerone · 12/07/2013 16:47

Please be Emmett and Renesmee.