10 Harry Potter Characters Whose Names Alone Spoil the Plot

Sarah
7 min readFeb 15, 2021

The wizarding world of Harry Potter is an etymologist’s playground. Very few characters have meaningless names, even the bland-sounding Harry Potter, whose name implies great leadership skills and the overthrowing of an old regime.

I mean, wow, spoiler alert.

By dissecting the names of certain characters in the Harry Potter series, some major plot points become blindingly obvious.

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Sarah

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