Birthday wishes. Also -- brain tired, suggestions requested

First of all, a happy birthday to
ashez2ashes!

As for the suggestions requested: can anyone think of a really appalling middle name for Tonks, one so bad she wouldn't want to use it even in preference to Nymphadora? It's only needed in order to be read out in a post-war court proceeding concerning the fate of Teddy, so it's merely a throwaway detail in the story, and I can't think of anything better than the invented and rather lame 'Selenissima' off the top of my head. (Yes, I know I used 'Diaphanta' in NTLJ, but (a) that was nicked from chosen in homage to a_t_rain and therefore shouldn't be overused, and (b) I'm not sure I want to imply this story is in the same ficverse as NTLJ anyway.)

As I said, brain tired. Lack of sleep, getting soaked by freezing rain on a trip to the nearest library of record, spending hours trying to find eighteenth-century Parliamentary Commissioners reports ... (/violins) Incidentally, one experiment worked -- instead of copying things out in longhand or lugging fragile volumes over to the photocopier, just use the old phone camera to take acceptable-resolution pictures. I don't know if this is generalisable to other archives who I suspect may have a policy against it(?), but fortunately this one was down in a basement and pretty deserted.

Oh, while I'm here, glad to see I got one interpretation right. :) From JKR's latest interview:

At the end of book seven Harry has a long conversation with Dumbledore. Who actually is dead but looks better and happier he has ever looked, in a beautiful light space which Harry thinks resembles King's Cross Station.
You can interpret that conversation in two ways. Either Harry is unconscious, everything Dumbledore tells him he already knew deep inside. In that state of unconsciousness his mind travels further. Dumbledore is in that case Harry's personification of wisdom; he sees Dumbledore in his head so he can come to certain insights. Or Harry has travelled to a place between life and death. From which Dumbledore and he will leave in opposite directions.

I thought that scene was carefully set up to hedge its bets! (The Resurrection Stone scene too -- the shades of Lily and the Marauders don't do or say anything more than the 'echoes' in the wand-connection scene do, and rather less than a lot of portraits.)