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