What are These Hints?
¥They show up in Rowling's choices of bad names:
Voldemort – will to death
Malfoy – bad faith
Draco – dragon, a biblical picture for Satan
Slytherin – "slithering" snake, ditto
Whinging – British for "whining, complaining"
¥See the huge list of name meanings at http://www.mugglenet.com/books/name_origins2.shtml.