Okay, tell me if I’m overthinking this and/or not the first person who has said this BUT after reading enough Harry Potter fanfiction I kept seeing a name pop up. Herpo the Foul.
Who is from like Fantastic Beasts I think? Idk I blacklisted any actual Rowling books and products ages ago bc of her personality and statements.
Now like who cares about this random dark lords name right? Except Herpo, if you kinda translate the letters/shapes of the letters to Cyrillic is well… the N word. The H in Cyrillic is like an English N. The r shape/г is a g. The p is equivalent to r… you get my point.
I’m not a pro at Cyrillic or Russian or anything despite knowing the alphabet but I saw mentioned once that that word in regards to black folks isn’t a slur and is just like how they refer to black people, though please correct me if I’m wrong.
Is Herpo’s name a coincidence? Probably????? But like of all the million combinations of letters, Rowling landed on that? For a dark lord and the guy who did the first horcrux or smt? And given her history with naming characters (shacklebolt?????? Wtf???????) I really have some suspicions.
Any thoughts and speculations on this are appreciated 😭











