QUOTE(ravenclaw wannabe @ Oct 16 2007, 04:08 PM)  QUOTE(Smullyan_for_DD @ Oct 16 2007, 03:10 PM) She didn't say the place worked well, she said the name worked well. There most certainly is a reference to the warrior queen, but that occurs in book 1, and at the very end of book 7. Those references are not the place name "King's Cross". I think you're seeing the three Kings in toast, my friend!  I believe we had a poster here a couple of threads ago who talked about straw man arguments?! This one appears to be a rhetorical beastie of that variety. Smullyan, I looked again at Sorcerer's Stone and Deathly Hallows. Where is the reference to Boudicca? I'm just not seeing it... am I missing something? Other than the possible connection between Victoire's name and Boudicca? I'm not discounting a reference--I am just not seeing it. Also, a nice distinction you are making between place and name.... And I don't particularly see a Three Kings reference myself, although I'd like to see the argument fleshed out (as well as Eileen and Merope as BVM references  )
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I think the reference to Boudicca is in Platform 9 3/4 as that is where she was said to have fallen and legend has it that her ghost haunts the place. We can go on with the Arthurian legend from here, but that's another thread (and besides, it doesn't explain the "Cross" in "King's Cross", or the theme of redemption in offering Voldemort one last chance to repent, that being an option for him solely by the presence of Harry's blood!).
I'm truly not seeing the BVM reference for Eileen and Merope either, Lily yes.
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
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Oct 16 2007, 11:16 AM
