The Deeper Meaning Behind Harry Potter Names
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:40 Harry Potter
1:07 Ron Weasley
1:40 Hermione Granger
2:34 Ginny Weasley
2:52 Draco Malfoy
3:37 Albus Dumbledore
4:14 Fred & George Weasley
4:35 Sirius Black
4:59 Severus Snape
5:29 Minerva McGonagall
5:46 Lord Voldemort
6:04 Tom Riddle
6:29 Remus Lupin
6:47 Rubeus Hagrid
7:05 Bellatrix Lestrange
7:34 Nymphadora Tonks
7:54 Lucius Malfoy
8:13 Alastor Moody
8:38 Nagini
9:10 Lily Potter
9:26 Kingsley Shacklebolt
9:52 Kreacher the House Elf
10:12 Olympe Maxime
10:33 Peter Pettigrew
10:48 Quirinus Quirrell
11:16 Sybill Trelawney
11:30 Pomona Sprout
11:39 Rita Skeeter
11:55 Cornelius Fudge
12:23 Andromeda Tonks
12:45 Charlie Weasley
12:56 Fenrir Greyback
13:21 Dolores Umbridge
13:39 Fleur Delacour
14:02 Petunia Dursley
14:18 Argus Filch
14:33 Gilderoy Lockhart
15:09 Moaning Myrtle
15:19 Aragog
15:33 Ludo Bagman
15:59 Peeves the Poltergeist
16:18 Cedric Diggory
16:28 Viktor Krum
16:48 Xenophilous Lovegood
17:00 Fawkes the Phoenix
17:25 Collin Creevey - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
“Oh dear! I sure hope my son Wolf Wolf McWolferson doesn’t get attacked by a werewolf!”
That is actually hillarious
That’s is really funny
Coldmirror xd
I’m Dead!
It's like naming your son Griffindoor Griffy McGryffindor
6:31. Remus also used the code name “Romulus” in deathly hallows, nice tie in
And then there is Cho Chang
And Shacklebolt (who is a black character)
@@210Arya_shacklebolt is something metallic
LMAO 😭
@@210Arya_Hey his name sounds metal AF!
Oh my.... @@210Arya_
7:05 Bellatrix is also a name of a star, the right shoulder of Orion. It is a tradition for the Black family to be named after stars (or galaxies, Andromeda)
So true!
Also Bella means beautiful in Latin, and I think she was described to be really beautiful, but with hate on her face taking that away.
In Latin it means warrior, that's my cat's name
Not just the Black family. Voldy's mom is named after a star in the Taurus constellation!
Then it makes sense why Andromeda was the only one of the three sisters who started off on the right path: she shone the brightest!
1:34 And Hermione's Patronus is an Otter.
good point
Also, Pomona, Professor Sprout's first name, was a Roman Goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards.
Another meaning of Umbrige’s first name is that “dolor” is Spanish for “pain” with”dolores” being the plural. This goes with how she causes immense pain to countless people, both physically and emotionally
Edit: after checking a translator, the same also holds true for Latin
I was looking for this. It often referes to one of th surnames of the Holy Mother in that to the Holy Mother who sufferes seven pains through her live.
Surprised you didn't mention how several of the Weasley family have names related to Arthurian Legends and medieval kings - King Arthur, Percy (short for Percival), Ginevra is a version of Guinevere, William the Conqueror)
King Charles
I hope Morgan will uploads a video about this someday
All but Percy & Ronald have royal names. Harry is from Henry, which is also a royal name.
There are a great many comparisons between Harry and the legend of king Arthur, a young man destined for greatness raised as a commoner unaware of his heritage, mentored by a wise and powerful wizard (merlin/Dumbledore) has a small group of loyal allies (Knights of the round table/Dumbledores army) with a destiny to defeat a powerful evil (Morgan LeFey/Voldemort), even pulling a legendary sword from an object because he was worthy (stone/hat) and even marries a woman call Ginevra/Guinevere
7:34 DON'T call her Nymphadora!
😂
That's what I was thinking 😂
Padma Patil - Padma is a sanskrit word which means Lotus. Head of the village is called as 'patil' .
Parvati Patil - Parvati is a hindu goddess.The word itself means daughter of the mountains....She is also called 'sakti' which means power . /force.
And also Padma is the short form of padmavathi
Lyall and Hope really named their child Wolf John McWolf and Greyback had a fieldday when he came to know the Lyall's son's name
😂😂
only comment is movie flames? let me fix that
@@shivchaddaNo father? Can’t fix that.
Lol
Ah yeah, I bet
Luna in Latin means "Moon".
And italian
And Spanish
And Russian
And you probably also know, the word "lunatic," or its shortened form, "loony," come from the ancient superstition that the full moon could make people go crazy.
So, when Ginny nicknames Luna as "Loony Lovegood," it works as both a cute diminutive of Luna's name, and as a joke about people thinking she's a little bit insane.
@@LamanKnight imagine lunatic lovegood tho
MovieFlame works so hard to make videos on Harry Potter, even though the series ended so long ago. It's nice to still have some harry potter content to listen to.
Also, Luna's mother, pandora. Something went very wrong, causing her death. This may be tied to the story of Pandora's box, where pandora got too curious and unleashed bad things onto the world.
She was supposedly "experimenting" with her magical research, which led to her early demise. I've always wondered what she was doing that could end so terribly... Maybe researching dark magics used by death eaters/Voldemort in order to help Dumbledore? Or she was able to get her hands on a horcrux? Or it was entirely unrelated to the main story, and she could have simply been a brilliant woman who flew too close to the sun.
In the Dutch translation, some of the names are also genius puns:
Dumbledore is Perkamentus (Perkament = parchment)
McGonagall is Anderling, “ander” meaning someone else, refering to McGonagall being an Animagus
Trelawney is Zwamdrift, “zwam”means mushroom or bullshitting, and drift means to want something very much. Here name literally means “wants to talk bullshit” 😂
Hermione’s name is Hermelien Griffel, a griffel is a stylus or pencil, and the phrase “tien met een griffel” (an A with a stylus) means to ace a test
Weasley is Wemel in Dutch. “Wemelen” means that it’s very crowded somewhere, tying in to the fact there’s many Weasleys.
Scrimgeour is Schobbejak, which means lowly criminal
Stan Shunpike is Sjaak Stuurman (stuur = to steer/drive and man is well… man) so he’s a driving man…
McNair is Vleeschouwer, wich combined “vlees” (meat) with “houwer” (cutter), making his name mean “meat cutter” since he’s Buckbeak’s executionist.
Tom Riddle is Marten Viliin (I know, very different, but otherwise the anagram did not work). The word “vilein” (pronounced the same as “vilijn” means cunning and villainous, and is therefore also a pun.
There’s many more examples of punny names in the Dutch translation (all of the names got Dutchified (except for Harry Potter), but these were the best ones.
Well, the Dutch translation of Stan Shunpike's name is very appropriate, considering he's the ticket counter on the Knight Bus
I'm reading it in Dutch now as my parents are Dutch, and I want to improve my Dutch, I've been noting the names
Ironically enough, "flight from death" (in a single word) is exactly how voldemort's name was written in the HP books in my native language.
Is your native language French?
Is it Catalan?
…which is..?
Lord flight from death!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Hamilfan31 No actually, it's albanian!
Another interesting one: Salazar Slytherin. Who was named after Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.
Great video as always. 😊
and Slytherin, which is exaxtly how a snake moves, slithering around.
Salazar just gives evil vibes as a name, ive heard it a few times in movies and its always the bad guy loool
Also for Greyback, one of Loki's sons was called Fenrir and he was a wolf
Yes the giant monster wold mentioned in the video.
For anyone wondering, Cedric's last name Diggory comes from the Tales of Narnia, where he is a main character in The Magician's Nefew and was there when the world of Narnia was created, and then responsible, as the old professor, for the siblings to first go to Narnia themselves, even if not intentionally
In Greek mythology, Hermione is the daughter of Helen (of Troy).
13:27 Dolores also means 'pains' in Spanish, which is represented by her punishment involving making students carve the words "I must not tell lies" into their hands
Need this type of video for hunger games characters 🙏
In hindi, Naagin means lady python
Seems like that has something to do with naming 'Nagini'.
He said it's derived from Urdu which is used in most people while speaking Hindi because of the adulteration. So it sums up for that.
Hermione was also the daughter of Helen and Menelaus of Sparta in Greek Mythology. I believe she was described as a smart young girl.
It's amazing the thought jk put into the names of the potter characters
I clicked faster than harry and Cho's relationship ended 😂😂😂
So the speed of light?
Yeah
Ofc😅😅😅
5:30 I love how you used the pjo fan art for Athena
"Draconian" was actually named after the Greek lawmaker Draco, who made nearly any crime in Athens punishable by death. To be honest, that interpretation is more Umbridge's domain.
Draco also has a dinosaur named after him
I think you mean Draco is named after a dinosaur (the Dracorex)
@@Shternz nah bro i think they named the dinosaur after him
@@Shternz Isn't there another dinosaur named after a Harry Potter charakter?
@@sawanna508 bruv it['s the character named after the dinosaur. There are no dinosaurs named after harry potter characters.
@@Shternzdracorex's species name is hogwartsi ( in think ) so it's technically named after Hogwarts. And besides, Dracorex might not have existed. Paleontologists believe that Dracorex might have been a young pachycephalosaurus.
(1:00) his second name, potter, was actually the last name of a family that Rowling lived near, but she said that she didn’t base Harry on any of the kids
Severus means cruel in Latin
Alastor is also ancient Greek for Spirit of vengeance
interesting
I read that as vigilance
CONSTANT VIGILANCE
@@amytranter-wall3953 😂
I'm assuming Fred and George refer to George III and his father Prince Frederick of Wales? Frederick died before his father, George II, so it was his son who became George III.
Another perhaps un-founded theory for the last name Pettigrew could be translated as the "pet that grew''. As seen in the Prisoner of Azkaban, Peter, being the Animagus that he was, eventually grew(transfigured) from his pet rat form Scabbers, into his human form Peter Pettigrew, hence the name.
I went on a Harry Potter tour in Edinburgh and we visited a graveyard that JK would walk around in with her daughter. The name of the graveyard is called Greyfriars and its where she got inspiration for Greyback's name. Also she got the name McGonagall and a few others i cant remember from a tombstone and he was a poet.
7:24 it’s also the French word “l’étrange” “the strange”
Dolores in spanish means "pains"
Spectacular
Can we all take a moment to appreciate morgan for all the work he puts in for all his vids
Ginny's name is also the pet name of Guinevere, King Arthur's wife. Now, who does Ginny marry, again?.
So does that mean that all of the Weasleys have a Royale name like King Arthur king William king Fredrick so on and so forth
Surely it is a reference to Harry's heroic deeds and not incest?🗿
@@_zenith_139 Yeah, that. I was going more for the fact that both Guineveres married protagonists.
Some of the myths about King Arthur I read as a child always call Guinvere Ginevra (My native language is German) it's also the italian version.
@@sawanna508 That's a "language"-thing. Names always change when you translate them to another language.
Snape is an english village, and a manor that once belonged to Catherine Parr's first husband. Hagrid comes from hagridden- meaning, nightmare - ridden by hags. Many of the names were discussed by Stephen Fry, actually, in the QI series. :)
Dolores literally means pain in Spanish and latin languages
Hunger Games had pretty significant names too
Yeah.
Katniss - Derived from the botanical name for the arrowhead plant, Sagittaria, which means archer or hunter; Katniss hunts to feed her family, being adept with archery. (The article I learned this from actually had MovieFlames video embedded.)
Peeta - A homophone for "pita," which is a type of bread; Peeta came from a family of bakers.
Primrose - A flower that has medicinal uses; Prim becomes a young medic later in the series.
Panem - Taken from "panem et circenses," a Roman term that translates to "bread and circuses(or games)," which refers to gaining public approval through cheap methods that are meant to distract people from issues rather than put in the effort to fix anything; the Hunger Games have become a sort of sporting event for the districts, despite having originally been a punishment in light of district thirteen's failed rebellion.
I hope movie flame does a video like this for the hunger games! It would be really interesting! Also, every time Movieflame uploads a video I get my hopes up that it’s The 2ND PART OF AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER! Please! Everyone is waiting for that part Movieflame! Like this comment, if you want the 2nd part too!
16:31 in the year 861, Khan Krum founded Bulgaria in the place where it is located to this day. Apparently Rowling wanted to include a major part of the history of the country she chose for the Quidditch world cup by giving Victor the surname Krum
It was founded by Asparuh in 681, but Krum is one of the greatest rulers of Bulgaria
As a fanfic writer I also feel its important that the names I chose for my original characters somehow match what their character does. For example my OC Akiko who in my fanfics is Zuko's true love name means "Bright Light" She's both the bright light in Zuko's life and she teaches the gang ENLIGHTMENT like her adopted father Iroh. So tha one example. I won't list them all but you get the idea.
Celtics (KEL-tic) is the people and things associated with Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Celtic (SEL-tic) is a basketball team
Yes Please! Don't mix them up 😅 !
8:50 Also in Hindu Mythology Lord Vishnu rests on his giant serpent "Sheesh Naag"...And Lord Shiva generally has a "Naag" (snake) wrapped around his neck
They did my boy Kingsley dirty.
Dolores is Spanish for “pains”
2:18 - When you said "Farenheit," you were referring to "Farenheit 451." While we're discussing nomenclature, it's worth noting that the "The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns," though it varies depending on the type of paper.
Padma means a lotus flower whereas Parvati is a goddess in hindu history. Patel means a headman of village and is rather a famous last name in India. Ig jk just randomly named them these names or was there any meaning you can find relating to the character?
Albus and Rubeus were father figures to Harry, White and Red were the 2 main components of the Philosophers Stone and J.K. Rowling confirmed this. SuperCarlinBrothers make a similar theory, but with Sirius Black.
Guy Fawkes is also held in New Zealand, although being able to buy fireworks is being made impossible by the government and trying to stick to public displays is suggested. This is because of animals being affected, stupidity when lighting them resulting in serious injuries. Although the British colonised New Zealand, I don’t see why we should celebrate guy fawkes when it happened in another country over 200 years ago - it’s also a waste of money - really expensive to buy them
Seeing as Kingsley is a British character, I don’t think his name would only be referring to America, especially since the majority of black slaves went to Brazil, the Caribbean, South America, and of course, were enslaved in Africa and still are today.
I like writing novels but I feel very difficult to name the characters.
So I think Rowling is very good at naming the characters.
I never think that there is deeper meaning behind it!
Otters and Weasels are part of the Mustalid family such as badgers
Can you do one for the hunger games and Percy Jackson?
17:21 remember remember the 5th of November. It’s done in Scotland too not just England.
And in other commonwealth countries that were colonised
Dude, I was about to write that
Another great video by my favorite Harry potter content creator
Hermione is also the name of Helen of Troy's daughter with her real husband King Menelaus, born BEFORE the Trojan War... Helen says so herself in The Odyssey, adding that she regretted leaving her behind during the war!
Honestly, I needed this. I always admired the names Rowling gave her characters.
@ivanandjoyceip9494 If you mean Cho Chang is a racist name. It isn't.
@@kinglando444 We do have to acknowledge that names such as Cho Chang, Seamus Finnigan, Parvait/ Padma Patel, and Kinglsey Shacklebolt are rooted in stereotypes. If this is something you don't understand I strongly recommend doing some research into it's racist connotations from the perspective of community members of the same race/ethnicity as the characters.
Also myrtles last name warren could be a reference to hiding in a bathroom stall, but still getting killed by a snake. Also could explain why she doesn't like ron(rabbits are often hunted by weasels)
8:48 bro really thought we wouldnt notice lol
jk
Rowling
Notably, just like Sirius, Bellatrix is also the name of a star. And so are many other names on the Black family tree
Percival = To Peirce the Blade and was one of King Arthur's best knights, remembered for his quest for the Holy Grail.
Wulfric = Wolf Power/Ruler, it's Medieval form 'Ulric' was worn by earl and a saint.
Brian = High and Noble, symbolising virtue and strength.
YESS FINALLY A NEW VIDEO
Kingsley always has me flabbergasted
B L A I S E Z A B I N I
There is also Henry Tonks, the facial injury artist. He drew pictures of soliders who had suffered facial injuries during WWI. He had worked for plastic surgery pioneer Harold Gillis who Vampire Diaries and The Originals actor Daniel Gillies is related to. Henry Tonks had drawn pictures of soliders who had facial injuries before they had plastic surgery under Sir Harold Gillies.
2:58 I cannot begin to explain the *uncanny* resemblance to a dragon.
For the Fred and George one, Frederik (who JK refers to) is Frederik, Prince of Wales, who died before he became King. When Fredrick’s father died, Frederick’s son, George became King George III of Great Britain.
Movieflame, maybe you don't know, but, in danish, tom mavolo riddle's name is Romeo G. Detlev JR. the G stand for Gåde I.E riddle
I can't pick just one that was most fascinating. You obviously put so much work into this. Thank you!
Thanks for the history lesson. I appreciate it.
Great video!
You should make videos about Harry Potter words and names in other languages. You could get multiple videos out of that, maybe a whole series!
Been loving the videos! I loved watching and reading Harry Potter, got out of it, and then saw your videos that got it back into me! It’s so cool learning about new Harry Potter facts, and etc. Makes me know way more!😂 Keep up the good work man! ❤
Absolutely AMAZING 🤩!!!! Some of these I knew not many though. I was curious about the dumbledore's pet Fawkes. I knew the history of Guy Fawkes in Britain. But it makes sense that she did that. JK Rowling is very well read kind of like a bookworm just like Hermione. I found her name quite fascinating. I wonder what Joanna means for that matter Rowling?
Crookshanks is the final revealed name in Charades. Audry Hepburn and Cary Grant movie.
Ooooh, do this for some of the spells/charms/incantations, too, please!
It's so crazy that J.K. Rowling put so much thought into the names!
I found Forx’s story behind his name most fascinating
Don't forget Draco malformed form Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone PS1.
As a danish person im am impress how good you pronused the Word vold i forgot that you are not danish 😂
8:48 WHAT DID HE SAYYYYYYY
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Thank you so much! I love the meanings with names. 😊❤
What a brilliant mind she has to come up with all these connections. Thank you for your hard work on this video.
Great video, some of these were really interesting. Do we have any Easter Egg vids left to release? Those were awesome as well. Anyhow cheers!
What a great video! I don’t think I’ve ever seen one like this before. I was most interested by the meaning of Cornelius and Argus. Wild House, so many of these were predictive of things that would come later in the story!
would you upload more videos with name meanings?
Make this Riordanverse video Part 1: What The Character’s Bogarts Are
Ex: Percy- Luke
Annabeth- Arachne
Grover- Polyphemus
Chiron- Gaia
Luke- May Castellan
Clarisse- Ares
Tyson- Sphinx
Thalia- The Sun Chariot
Nico- Cupid
Zoe- Atlas
THOA- Orion
Chris Rodriguez- King Minos
Silena- Losing Beckondorf
The Gods- Typhon
Jason- Beryl Grace
Leo- Hera
Piper- losing Jason & Leo
Frank- Thanatos
Hazel- Alcyoneus
Reyna- The Ramírez Arellano Ancestors
Hylla- Julian Ramirez- Arellano
Drew- Piper
Tristan McLean- Enceladus
Octavian-??
Meg- The Emperors
Thx for the great video as always...Can u pls continue with the ATLA series review?
Finally a harry potter video
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@@prominister2098 ??
Woahhh how is your emoji like that ☠️ @@prominister2098
What do you mean? The last Harry Potter video was only 2 weeks ago
@@jaketowell1053 2 long ago 😂
Hi morgan, i just wanted to say i love the video and andromia is also the name for a consultation and going off from bon fire night there are firework displays that happen around that date but still great facts and great digging to find them all
Makes me wonder how much mythology JK knows.
In french mal means bad and foy means faith which describes the Malfoy's who are bad faith. Also can you react to harry potter fanfiction
Love the content keep it up mate i love HP
CAN U DO THE LIFE OF SIRIUS BLACK???
Alright a video about names this is awesome as a person who likes to look up names and their meanings especially for when I make my own stories 🤩
Ginevra could also reference Guinevere, wife of king Arthur. The Weasleys love their royalty themes. King George also may have dealt with progressive deafness, and George Weasley lost an ear. And like you said in the video Prince Fred died before he could ascend the throne, leaving it to his eldest son George.
William and Charles are both common names within the British royal family, with William the conqueror's castle being the same location of king Arthur's round table. Arthur Weasley is of course based upon the king of legend, king Arthur.
Percy is short for Percival, which is likely a reference to Sir Percival of the round table. Sir Percival was one of the "greats" in Arthurian legend, known as one of the only two (or three, depending on the source) knights to find the Holy Grail (the other being Sir Galahad). He is also credited with killing the Red Knight. Percy could also be short for Perseus, son of Zeus and ancient Greek hero known for slaying Medusa.
Ronald is a nod to Rognvald, a name that many great old kings share. (Weasley is our king!) Molly can be a name by itself, but it can also be short for the name Margaret. Princess Margaret is the countess of Snowdon, and the only sibling of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
(And just as a fun fact, Lucius Malfoy is likely a nod to Lucius Tiberius, a rival of King Arthur who was defeated by none other than the King himself.)
Lupin also used Romulus as a nickname in the 7th book. I’m
Surprised this wasn’t mentioned in the video
I’m sure you noticed this but I jus thought of how when in the order of the phoenix movie (not sure about the book) most of some of the most powerful wizards in the world are at the ministry when all the ministry employees weren’t their lol
Amazing.
I've always been very intrigued by etymology. I really like the name Albus, Rubeus and Lucious.