And when I was asked what the origin of the Pisces Potion was I totally misremembered the details and just said "Well, in the Northern European dialect of Zociad, the word Pisces means 'good at music'" And then all the Asian people in the world thought that's what it meant
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Anyway Cho Chang is *not* a melancholy character when she's introduced, she has pretty much no characterization at all other than being the unattainable hot girl until after Cedric dies in Order of the Phoenix
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The Chinese transition of Harry Potter does not go with the "melancholy" thing because it's ridiculous They try to salvage it by making her name Zhang Qiu (張秋) which is a... very unusual name (it's two surnames, like being named "Smith Johnson") but better than nothing
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Annie Zaitini or something
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For all that, her name isn't Chou Chang. Which, if we're making up random crap through google translate, sure, why not. Also, this isn't Pilgrim's Progress, where everyone has a clumsy metaphor of a name. Well, not with most of the kids, anyway.
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That’s Ann Xiety, she’s a first year transfer.
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Accept Ann is a name so you've already got a leg up on JK.
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Everybody out here trying to make JKR into John Bunyan and shit like that makes it better
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This screams of "what I want to think is the case rather than what it actually is!" You criticized in your lengthy ass thread but who's to say that JKR used your logic for naming certain characters or spells? You never have asked her about how she thought of those names.
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It could be mix and match or possibly usage of English words' meaning and giving it a latin twist or french twist to it(which is the case imho). The point is you don't know what actually is the case but you are fixating on what you believe is the case and are completely
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