Naming your children after Harry Potter characters: The plight of a Potter fan
Paying homage to your favorite series as an adult can be a fun thing but should you name your children after Harry Potter characters? What if you don’t want to?
If you’re someone like me, you may have loved the Harry Potter series while also having your favorite names for future children picked out. So imagine my upset when I had to change my fictional children’s names because I had always loved James and Lily but didn’t want people to think it was because I love the series.
It got me thinking though: Why should that matter? Is it an important aspect of our society, and us as people, that we pay tribute to our favorite things? So much so that if we love something we can’t name our kids after it or it will seem as if we’re doing so?
Maybe it is because people who name their children something nerdy form a kind of joke about themselves by society that it puts us off from naming our children anything from our favorite series (intentionally or not). Still, though, it should be within our right as fans and humans to name our kids whatever we want without society worrying about what children will do to them.
Teach our kids not to make fun of others and then someone can name their daughter Hermione without thinking about what kids will do to them. It’d be pretty awesome to be named after any character in the Harry Potter series but also, we shouldn’t hold everyone to that esteem either. I just liked the names James and Lily beforehand.
dark. Next. What are we going to do about all the Harry Potter characters the movies left out?