Yes, in this period I love to read what I couldn't read at the publishing time of HP fandom because of lack of pc and been too young.
Just to add that I think what is opposed between the evil Malfoy&Lestrange&Black, and the good Dumbledore&Weasley is the opposition between the Britain before and post 1066 (Normand conquest). I think that somewhere in a comment made on this LJ, someone bring a bit of the topic with Fleur Delacour.
The "evil" character have lot of french words and names (Lestrange sounds like "l'étrange" (the strange), Malfoy is bad faith in old french, the black motto is in french, and of course Voldemort (french for fly of death).Even somes infos from the author, about the Malfoy says that the family head is a french wizard who came with William the Conqueror (http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Armand_Malfoy). Horace (Eugene Slughorn) have both french&english name.
Dumbledore is an old english (http://www.behindthename.com/glossary/view/old_english) word meaning 'bumblebee', Hagrid is also an old english word, same roots for Weasley (which can be written Wesley), and many "good" characters either have old english names (Molly is medieval english of Mary. It is also a gaelic name)or arthurian characters related names (which tie to the Battle of Hastings). Harry can be a diminutive of old english name (Harold, also the name of the last anglo-saxon king who fought the Normans and died at the Battle of Hastings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Godwinson) , Godric (Gryffindor) is an old english name...Even Beedle the Bard is an echo of Bede (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede)
I don't know if I'm reading too much into it, but knowing how the english nationalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_nationalism) plays with such imaginary, I'm a bit unnerved. At least, as a french, I'm surprised that I can remember plenty of "bad" characters with french names, but not a single one of good with ones except Fleur's family(or my memories tricks me)
A little necropostage
Just to add that I think what is opposed between the evil Malfoy&Lestrange&Black, and the good Dumbledore&Weasley is the opposition between the Britain before and post 1066 (Normand conquest). I think that somewhere in a comment made on this LJ, someone bring a bit of the topic with Fleur Delacour.
The "evil" character have lot of french words and names (Lestrange sounds like "l'étrange" (the strange), Malfoy is bad faith in old french, the black motto is in french, and of course Voldemort (french for fly of death).Even somes infos from the author, about the Malfoy says that the family head is a french wizard who came with William the Conqueror (http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Armand_Malfoy). Horace (Eugene Slughorn) have both french&english name.
Dumbledore is an old english (http://www.behindthename.com/glossary/view/old_english) word meaning 'bumblebee', Hagrid is also an old english word, same roots for Weasley (which can be written Wesley), and many "good" characters either have old english names (Molly is medieval english of Mary. It is also a gaelic name)or arthurian characters related names (which tie to the Battle of Hastings). Harry can be a diminutive of old english name (Harold, also the name of the last anglo-saxon king who fought the Normans and died at the Battle of Hastings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Godwinson) , Godric (Gryffindor) is an old english name...Even Beedle the Bard is an echo of Bede (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede)
I don't know if I'm reading too much into it, but knowing how the english nationalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_nationalism) plays with such imaginary, I'm a bit unnerved. At least, as a french, I'm surprised that I can remember plenty of "bad" characters with french names, but not a single one of good with ones except Fleur's family(or my memories tricks me)