PS/SS:CH1:MEANINGS OF NAMES, part two

(This is a Diggle family crest.)

Privet -- a type of shrub often used for hedgerows, but it's also looks like the French privé, meaning private. (French for privet is actually troène.)
Godric -- means "power of god". We later learn that a Hogwarts founder was named Godric...must have been quite powerful, indeed. Several streets in the UK have Godric in the name:
Godric Crescent, New Addington, Croydon, CR0
Godric Drive, Brinsworth, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S_60
Godric Green, Brinsworth, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S_60
Godric Place, Norwich, NR2(Off of Guardian Rd....hmmm....)
Godric Road, Sheffield, S_5
Godric Road, Witham, Essex, CM8
Godric Square, Peterborough, PE2
So where the heck is Godric's Hollow supposed to be? I'll get back to this later because of Hagrid's mention of Bristol.
Dedalus -- from Daedalus, credited with not only those famous wax and feather wings but also for the Labyrinth and other inventions. His name is synonymous with "cunning" and "curiously wrought".
Diggle -- means "thick, stout, strong, fat" or someone living near a thicket. Though we learn Dedalus Diggle lives in Kent, Diggle is a village in Saddleworth, Oldham, part of Greater Manchester. There are lots of mills in this area, and Diggle Mill had the largest (or second largest, according to some websites) waterwheel in the UK until it was removed in 1924. Diggle also has another mill, Warf Mill. I'm sure you are asking why I care about mills in this area (or mills at all) but I assure you that it could be very important later...not about Dedalus Diggle, but about Snape. There's also a Diggle Reservoir in the same Oldham area. Diggle Green, however, is in Warrington. (We'll get to Warrington later, too.) There are also several streets with Diggle in the name:
Diggle Edge, Diggle, Oldham, OL3
Diggle Mill Cottages, Diggle, Oldham, OL3
Diggle Road, Carlisle, CA2
Diggle Street, Shaw, Oldham, OL2
Diggle Street, Wigan, Lancashire, WN6
Diggle Walk, Carrbrook, Stalybridge, Cheshire, SK15
Professor McGonagall doesn't hold Dedalus Diggle in such high regard; she says he hasn't much sense. Perhaps he's a bit thick-headed? Seems there must be more to him....
Hagrid -- most often, sleuths state his name's similarity to the word haggard, meaning "wild, untamed, worn". Also, 'Etym: According to Rowling, "If you were hagrid-- it's a dialect word-- you'd had a bad night. Hagrid is a big drinker-- he's had a lot of bad nights." ' (Thanks, http://www.m5p.com/~pravn/hp/h-1.html), but in a later post I plan to go into great detail about his name and importance to the story....
Ted -- Theodore means "gift of god", Edward means "rich guard", and Tadhg means "wise poet". When this news anchor allows himself to smile, I couldn't help but wonder if he's either a wizard or perhaps has other ties to the wizarding world. Later we'll hear about another Ted, and I wonder if they are the same person. I feel as though JKR has left his last name out for a specific reason. Is he Ted Tonks, the Muggle-born? Ted Tonk's Muggle father?
Jim -- same meaning as James, though I doubt it's important this time.
McGuffin -- Mac Dhuibhfinn, meaning "black + fair". http://www.m5p.com/~pravn/hp/m-1.html says, "McGuffin, Jim (PS ch. 6): A TV weatherman. Etym: Name etymology is probably not relevant. The name was used as a term by Alfred Hitchcock to mean an object that is significant to a plot. Okay, that's probably not relevant here either." Hmmm...well, the weatherman was talking about sparks seen up and down the UK, and we're not sure exactly when those sparks were seen by Muggles (during that day or the night before, say around midnight??). I have this eerie feeling that those sparks aren't the work of Dedalus Diggle or other merrymakers after Voldemort's supposed downfall, but perhaps something that happened the night of the attack on the Potters before anyone had the foggiest idea what had happened in Godric's Hollow...but why wouldn't Dumbledore mention something about it to McGonagall when she's complaining about Dedalus Diggle?
Grunnings -- the place where Vernon Dursley works. From Norwegian, grunn means "cause, ground, reason, shallow" or "base, basis". Grunne means "prime, shallows, shoal". Grunn is also the name of a town and a brewery. Grunnings is also a language/dialect in Netherlands.... "Gronings -- [gos] 592,000 (2003). Groningen Province. Alternate names: Groningen, Grunnings. Dialects: West Groningen (West Gronings), Groningen-East Frisian (Gronings-Oostfries), Veenkoloniaals (Veen Colony), Westerwolds (Westerwold). Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, Low Saxon-Low Franconian, Low Saxon." (Thanks, http://www.ethnologue.org/show_country.asp?name=Netherlands.) Its classification as Low or Lowland Saxon is probably related to the Norwegian meanings of "base", "ground", or "shallow". Either way, Vernon is the director of a company that is base, low and shallow. Also, drills are made of base metals, so this could be a vague allusion to alchemy, specifically that Vernon is incapable of undergoing the alchemical process simply because he cannot accept change!
Sirius -- "burning, glowing". It's also the Dog Star in the Orion constellation. Of course we later find out he's an Animagus taking the form of what else but a black dog.
Black -- oddly enough, black appears to mean devoid of color in two different ways, either by the "color" black, or by the Old English word blac, meaning "pale", of all things....
Muggle, or Mordu -- we come to learn Muggle is anyone who can't use magic. According to http://www.m5p.com/~pravn/hp/m-1.html, "Muggle: 1) A person who is not part of, or was not raised in, the wizard society. 2) A person with no magical powers. Etym: Stated by Rowling to be invented from the British slang meaning of mug, "a dupe". Coincidentally an actual archaic English word, as has been discussed at length elsewhere." The "elsewhere" link is no good, so I went a-hunting.... http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml says, "Mug - If someone is a bit of a mug, it means they are gullible." According to http://www.londonslang.com/db/film_slang/, "mug - a fool or victim. Originates from the fact that drinking mug's used to be made with ugly faces on them. Also for this reason 'mug' can mean 'face', i.e.. 'ugly mug'." http://www.raygirvan.co.uk/apoth/though10.htm points out that "the word 'muggle' wasn't coined by Stouffer, as it appears in the OED as an archaic Kentish word for 'tail' and a 20th word for marijuana."
(Background info here: Stouffer is an author who sued JKR and lost over copyright infringement....) The French translation of the Harry Potter septology uses the word Mordu for Muggle. Mordu means "bitten", but can also mean "crazy", "fanatic person" or "maniac". This makes it sound like the French wizarding community is largely anti-Muggle!
Pomfrey -- from Pumfrey, from Humphrey "bear cub + peace". However, take this into consideration, too: pom, like pomme, means "apple" and then there's this about frey: "Frey Son of Ni? the Van. He was the Scandinavian god of fertility and peace, and the dispenser of rain. Frey was the patron god of Sweden and Iceland, he rode on the boar Gullinbursti, and his sword was self-acting. (See Gerda.) Ni? He, with his son and daughter, presided over the sea, the clouds, the air, and water generally. They belonged to the Vanir. Freyja Daughter of Ni? goddess of love. She was the wife of Odin, who deserted her because she loved finery better than she loved her husband. Her chariot was drawn by two cats, and not by doves like the car of Venus. (Scandinavian mythology.)"
(http://www.bootlegbooks.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable/data/487.html)