#queuepefy

You’re telling me she didn’t insist on weird ancient author names? You’re telling me RON WEASLEY, someone who spent his whole life worried he was plain and easily forgotten, would want to name his kids the most boring, normal names in history?? You’re telling me he never noticed the names were eerily similar to his and Hermione’s and never made a thousand jokes about this??

I’ve seen a lot of people think that Hugo is named after Victor Hugo and I definitely agree with that! While fairly normal, I feel like the other options might have been Nathaniel (Hawthorne), Charles (Dickens), Roald (Dahl), and Aldous (Huxley) -- except Charles is his uncle’s name, Roald is too close to Ronald, and Aldous sounds too much like his cousin Albus. So between Hugo and Nathaniel, it ultimately came down to preference.

As for Rose, I think that it’s actually a nickname for Rosalind--a name that, like Hermione, is a Shakespearean heroine. I think that Rosalind was chosen instead of another character with a more outlandish name like Calpurnia or Goneril was to avoid teasing at muggle primary school since Hermione lived through that.