I never had an issue with any of the Potter kids names. I don't understand why people think everyone (or Harry) would expect them to act like their grandparents or Dumbledore or treat them like they were. When you name a child after someone, particularly if it's someone who has died, that child immediately begins to create his or her own identity. The moment James Sirius Potter was born, he was his own person--he had his likes and dislikes, his own unique personality--and everyone who knew him began to associate the name James Potter with a little baby and not a man who died tragically young at 21. Considering what we know of James and what he believed in and died for, that's probably the way he'd want it.

Until Jo tells me otherwise, Harry's nickname for Lily is Lil'bit.



Absolutely. I see them honoring those that they lost but also creating a new association to a name that perhaps might have been thought of in negative light like Severus.