+143 You wonder if Harry Potter would've been as popular if he'd had a different name. Bartholomew Perkins just doesn't have the same ring to it, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Harry Potter, as in the book or the character in the story? If it was the character, then yes he still would've been popular. Names aren't a problem in the wizarding world lol; people named Albus Dumbledore and Sirius Black were still popular all around the wizarding world

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yer a wizard Bartholomew. Yeah I see what you mean.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well part of the appeal of Harry Potter is that he doesn't see himself as anything special. "I'm just. . . Harry."

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Bartholomew Perkins The boy who lived. ehhh...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But if his name had always been Bartholomew Perkins, that's what we would be used to hearing, so it wouldn't seem that strange.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Bartholomew Perkins is a hard name to say, for me at least. It's like you have to keep repeating it to finally get it right. I do agree with WWWYKI, though, that if that had been the "boy-who-lived's" name from the start, people would get used to it, eventually.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My theory is that It has to be 4 syllables or less. Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, James Potter, Sirius Black, etc. The only person to break this that I have thought about so far is Hermione Granger.

by Anonymous 11 years ago