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  1. Daily on Chapter 1 Thu 12 Nov 2015 06:22PM UTC

    *snickers* yeah...I hadn't thought about his mother's name in that way, just thought it was a ridiculous name even for wizarding standards.
    I know many people want an original name for their child nowadays, but back in the 20/30's in which I assume they were born, it are ridiculous names. And for them to find each other and fall in love...yeah....
    Maybe James' grandmother had pneumonia when she was pregnant and decided it made such an impact on her she named her daughter Euphemia?

    That said, thank you. Oh, they'll have some explaining to do about just how Sirius became a very illegal animagus :P Glad you liked it!

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    1. Guest (Guest) on Chapter 1 Fri 13 Nov 2015 02:57PM UTC

      True, I didn't think about 'pneumonia'. Oh, the fun we can have with that name. However, we can't talk about names without mentioning Elevendork. I would just like put in that I do not think it's a unisex name. Elvendork is totally a boy's name. It would have to be feminized to make it a girl's name: such as Elevendorka, Elevendorkette, Elevendorkesse - hey Elevendorcas; wasn't there a charater named Dorcas Medows? Her parents must have fallen for the unisex thing. Or you could shorten the name to Elva or Elvie.
      I agree, the names people can come up with now are ... unique. Though, odd names have always been out there. Take Dumbledore for instance - who knows how old he is, and I would like to add that the only way I can spell his name is if I spell out in my head Dumb-le-dor-with an added 'e'. So whoever came up with the family name is saying they're a family of dumb doors. Which they wouldn't be wrong, but there had to be Smart-le-dore's in the bunch somewhre, right?
      Another thing to come to mind about the talk they're gonna have about being animagi (that's the proper plural form right?) is that Sirius is going to be in the metamorphical 'dog house'. Or in a real one. They can conjure a dog house and put it in James' room - just have the opening facing the corner so he's in time out. Now, to figure out a way to keep a stag facing the corner without sticking his antlers in the wall and damaging the wallpaper...

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      1. Daily on Chapter 1 Fri 13 Nov 2015 07:35PM UTC

        The fun we can have with every name :P Though wasn't it Elvendork, not Elevendork?
        Hmmmm, maybe Dorcas Meadows full name is Elvendorcas? :P And she was so horrified she shortened it to Dorcas.

        But you've got a point with Dumbledore, made me choke on my drink with that one as I hadn't thought about it that way. I think Dumbledore is about a hundred and ten years old or so.
        In Dutch he's translated as Perkamentus (Parchment) always made me think his ancestors were really unimaginative.
        I do wonder...someone should add a Smartledore just for the sake of this.

        Yes, it's Animagi in it's plural form (had to get that stamped into me as well so I don't think I'll ever forget that again)
        While the thought is really amusing and I do wonder....James is a teenager, so would his antlers really be that large already when he's still growing up? Could make him stand in a metal corner, resting his antlers against the metal so nothing gets damaged.

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        1. Guest (Guest) on Chapter 1 Wed 18 Nov 2015 01:17PM UTC

          Yeah, sorry about the Elevendork. The odd thing was I was saying in my head Elvendork, while typing Elevendork - on the upside, we now know how many people it takes to change a lightbulb: eleven dorks. (That was funny when I thought of it, but it has been a few days since then and now it just sounds weird.) Though if my parents named me Elvendorcas, I wouldn't give anyone a chance on figering out what name was; I would just give out the initial E. Meadows. Oh, guess what: I found a masculine name for Euphemia. Ephraim. It doesn't have the u in it, but I thought it did when I saw it in a magaize, so I read it as Euphraim. See what we did, we feminized Elvendork and masculinized Euphemia. We can open up a name-generator business; first name up ... Euphemont Potter (poor James - you can't deny J.K.Rowling did him a favor there).
          Hmm, door, parchment, you can still draw on both with crayons. Maybe his ancestors weren't so much unimaginative as unfortunate - like they were thinking of what to call themselves when one of them ran into a door, and you just know that once the phrase 'dumb door' has been uttered it can't be taken back ... and one of them would have been like, 'Heyyy, there's a name no one else has, let's take that one!' Don't worry, I'm sure the Smartledores are out there, just distant cousins. Kinda like when there's a feud between families and they just change the spelling of their name as a way of ... disowning, I guess. Green and Greene for example. If that was the case I wonder what the feud was about.
          Now that's a thought. Animals mature faster than humans, right. It takes maybe two or three years perhaps for a stag to reach adulthood? So would that mean after two or three years of becoming an Animagus, he would reach adulthood in his stag form? Or would it be based upon how old he is in his human form? How long does it take for a rat to reach adulthood? I'm trying to think of Peter, because he appeared to be an old rat. So how old you are in human form would affect how old you are in Animagus form? I think it's around two-to-four years for dogs - not that I can properly judge; one of my dogs is entitiled beyond his years and the other still acts like a puppy, despite their ages. Maybe as a teenager in his human form, James would have antlers, just not the full rack of an adult. You see, this when it would be good to have a Smartledore around to answer these questions for us.
          Anyway, I need to scroll up and actually read the new chapter, so I'll scroll back down in a bit.
          Okay, first, totally cheering at Sirius' remarks. Way to stick it to them. Two, /"You should be grateful we shelter you, feed you and take care of you./ that sounds like something Vernon Dursley said to Harry, and I'm glad nothing that horrible happened to him. Even with all of the emotions going in this chapter, I think the only way to sum it up is Sirius is one strong man - in every sense of the word. Great work.

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          1. Daily on Chapter 1 Wed 18 Nov 2015 07:12PM UTC

            I wondered :P No, it’s still funny, I wouldn’t have thought of it.

            Or just tell everyone your name is Dorcas until no one knows better, think that’s what she did? :P Or like Nymphadora just prefer your surname.
            Ephraim still looks ridiculous, poor kid who gets named that.
            Ha! That’s true, James got off really lucky, but I think it’s because his parents know their own horrible names and decided that, no...they will not put their child through that, ever.

            Maybe the feud was even about the spelling of the name itself. One part of the family saying it’s Green while the other keeps insisting it’s Greene until eventually it splits into two different surnames with the same ancestry.

            A rat is considered an adult six months, but can get pregnant at ten weeks ( I’ve owned rats since I was six so I took personal offense in the traitor becoming such a sweet creature)

            A stag becomes an adult in two/two and a half years according to Wikipedia.
            I wonder...though it can’t truly reflect an animal as rats don’t usually become older than two, maybe three.

            I remember that Remus said that Snape saw an almost adult werewolf, and that was when he was sixteen. So taking Remus as a example, I think Prongs would be considered an adult when James himself became one, though he’d not start out as a fawn since it’s also said he and Sirius were big enough to control Moony.

            So when they first transformed I think they became animals in their tweens? Do animals have tweens?

            I don’t think even a Smartledore could answer those questions to be honest.....

            Yeah, Harry got off lucky, though I wonder how much of it was thanks to his own magic that kept him safe from serious harm.

            He is, isn’t he?

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            1. Guest (Guest) on Chapter 1 Wed 02 Dec 2015 10:11PM UTC

              I got to read two chapters in one go! - my grandmother had come to visit, so I took a little break from reading.
              I like how you wrote the scene with Arcturus and Charlus. I'm trying to think how to say this. Neither of them are on the same side so-to-speak (a pure-blood radical and a muggle-born supporter) but they put that aside to deal with a issue that meant a lot to them. Sirius. Arcturus, despite his views, can't have been too bad a person in general. Sirius did willingly walk back into that house - window - to see him and spend time with him. That has to have made Arcturus feel guilty.
              I also like Jame's you're-my-little-brother-and-are-now-a-part-of-my-family-so-we-get-to-take-care-of-you-and-you-can't-do-anything-about-it scene. Love, love this story.
              One more thing about the animagus thing. I remember hearing that deer shed their antlers. So I wonder if there would be times when James would transform and not have them. Size-wise, he'd still be a big animal without them, but it would mean he wouldn't have the same protection as he'd have with them (not that he'd use them on Remus - I think he'd probably try to avoid that).

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              1. Daily on Chapter 1 Thu 03 Dec 2015 05:31PM UTC

                Sirius walked back into that house willingly to see and spend time with him? That's not canon is it? Because Arcturus dies while Sirius is still in Azkaban, doesn't he? But yeah, it's always surprising how good people can work together when they have a common goal :P Both men love Sirius, though Arcturus doesn't show it as easily as Charlus does.

                Poor Siri, grew up as a big brother, then met the Marauders and became the little adored brother, always hugged, protected, petted and adored by his "big brothers" Couldn't think of a better big brother than James.

                Stags shed their antlers once a year after the mating season, I believe. But I don't think James would go through that as he's not a stag all the time and only once a month. If you were to include that sort of thing, then logically you'd also be saying he'd have a mating season. Same for Sirius, he's a dog animagus but he's never seen displaying the urge to hump every thing there is. And unless he's been helped, logically wise he'd have that urge as well since he did spend ages as a dog.

                It led me to believe they have the benefits of the animal they become and gain some abilities and behaviour of their animal, but not actually that sort of thing.
                Though I can actually see James using his antlers to get Moony to back off if he's too vicious towards Padfoot or Wormtail or so :P Not to hurt him, but in warning to back off.

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    3. Bibliovert on Chapter 1 Sat 23 Oct 2021 09:48AM UTC

      I know this is about six years late, but:

      Euphemia is a legitimate name, if a rather old one (although... Hermione and Dorea are also very old!). It comes from Greek, and means "well-spoken (of)". It can be shortened to Effie.

      Fleamont is a surname, also spelled Fleamon, Fleaman, Fleemon and may be related to Fleming or Flemish (a person from Flanders). I agree that it's weird as a first name! Families do sometimes use surnames as middle names (mother's maiden name especially), so it's not totally unheard of.

      Dumbledore is an old dialectal word for "bumblebee" - try saying it slowly and you can imagine a bee droning! JKR did actually talk about this - she said she imagined him wandering around Hogwarts humming to himself - like a bee!

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      1. Daily on Chapter 1 Sat 23 Oct 2021 03:40PM UTC

        I know that by now, yeah. But back when the names were first revealed they just sounded dumb and stupid...and still do. I did know Fleamon can be a surname, but I'd never once came across it as a first name and the combination of the two given names was just absurd. Especially because it creates yet another plot hole in her stories of just what happened to Dorea and Charlus and their unnamed son if Harry supposedly had no other family left. Were they wiped out by Voldemort? Did they die of other causes?

        Not to mention that by the time she finally deemed to give us some information we'd asked for for years, I'd already written a good few stories in which James' parents were Dorea and Charlus and so decided to leave it like that. Same for Sirius' birthday.

        I know Dumbledore is dialect for Bumblebee, though I can't get it pronounced in any way that it's even remotely the same sounding, but that might just be because my native language isn't anything close to English. And Rowling talks about a lot of things, half of which is usually utter nonsense and destroys her beautiful world even further with her constant inconsistencies so I've taken to just ignoring most of what she sprouts in interviews, sorry.

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