hey there buddy!! hope ur day is going nice!! this turned into more of a general thing on how the boys got their names, really, so i hope that’s fine w/ you!!
- james sirius: tamil families (or at least mine) tend to name firstborn boys after their grandfathers/great-grandfathers (but only if they’re dead– white families don’t seem to have that requirement), so it actually makes sense that harry named the first boy james sirius. it’s a big name for a little boy, though, so harry and ginny decide he needs a nickname. ginny calls him jay once, and that sticks. jay means victory, in sanskrit– an appropriate choice, considering whose son he is.
- remus rubeus: remus rubeus got his name because harry wanted to round out his dad collection with two more of his soul dads. harry tends to call remus ram, though, because it’s a tie back to harry’s culture and also ram is a god known for his devotion to his family, especially his brother!! that’d be a big thing for harry, especially considering he’d be worried about the boys being too close together in age!!
(fun fact, if you put my name together with rr’s and jsp’s, you get the phrase sri rama jayam, which means victory to sri ram!! pretty clever work on my part yeah?? ;D)
rr anon again: ooh well since you mentioned their Indian names I’d like to hear about them! :3
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