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"there's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. isn't that kind of the point?"
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In which Harry and Ginny name each of their children. AU because non-canon names.
(A note: Now, I am something of a canon fanatic and I wouldn’t ever say canon ought to be something else because that’s sort of missing the point, isn’t it. That being said, the Potter childrens’ names are one of my least favorite things about canon, and while I never disliked Harry and Ginny’s name choices with quite the same intensity as some others, I thought it would be fun to explore a different path for them…)
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a huge fan of the name Albus Severus but I like to think that naming him such was not entirely Harry’s decision. I think people tend to forget that Snape was a big influence on Ginny’s last year of the war as well. After all was said and done she might have appreciated the fact that he was, in a way, looking out for the students of Hogwarts. Sure, it was a hell of a year but can we let the Carrows take most of the credit for that? I mean, Ginny breaks into the Headmaster’s office to steal a valuable artifact and gets… detention with Hagrid? I’m thinking he could have done a lot worse.
I’m not jumping on the Snape bandwagon (that day will surely never come) but I don’t think Ginny would have disapproved of the suggestion that Snape be somehow remembered. (He certainly wasn’t going to be remembered by anyone else).
As for the other Potter children I don’t think Ginny would begrudge Harry wanting to honor his parent’s memories. She had always known a large and happy family and Harry never had. In a way it brings things back to the very beginning—a whole and happy Potter family that Harry should have had from the start.
