Just watched "The Deathly Hollows Part 1" (I know, I know I'm behind) and I'm excited about the next film. JK Rowling obviously put a lot of thought in to her characters names and I've been learning a lot of mythology researching...anyhow from this comprehensive list of names from the books, which would you pick out as names you like?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Harry_Potter_characters

Mine are:
Lavender
Lysandra
Miranda
Hermione
Astoria
Hestia
Minerva
Andromeda - I know! but it appeals to me!
Mallory - I would seriously use this if it had a nice meaning (Mallory Blackman is a great author)

Casper
Elias
Basil
Remus
Tiberius
Merlin - DH wanted to use this if no.2 had been a boy
Felix
Sirius

NB I do like 'different' names - there are plenty on the list that are common/popular names.
Enjoy!

I really love Minerva.

I also have a love of Luna

Sirius and Remus are great

It would take me too long to list the names I love. J K Rowling did a brilliant job naming her characters.

I love Luna too...I wanted to call our English Setter Luna but DH didn't like it...he thinks 'Looney' which incidently would have fitted her perfectly!
(Since reading the books however, I think he rather likes Luna.)

I like all the names you have listed with the exception of Mallory. And Lavender has a NN problem.

That's a very long list of names!

Euan
Stewart
Archibald
Arkie
Otto
Ali
Marcus
Katie
Callidora
Charis,
Violetta
Pollux
Elladora
Lysandra
Timothy
Miles
Eleanor
Lexi
Eddie
Ellie
Maisie
Owen
Penelope
Magenta
Buckley
Vincent
Caspar
Charis
Amos
Emma
Daisy
Matilda
Ariana
Benjy
Arabella
Miranda
Hugo
Rose
Davy
Rolanda
Leonard
Aidan
Alice
Laura
Gwendolyn
Zacharias
Eric
Theodore
Octavius
Carlotta
Xavier
Evan
Bruno
Rita
Elliot
Tobias
Alicia
Erica
Tilly
Cassandra
Audrey
William
Charlie
Oliver
Blaise
Archie
Bane

I've loved the name Hermoine ever since my sister got a Cabbage Kid with the same name 30 years ago.

Lucius
Fleur
Remus
Helena
Ginevra
Aurora
Emmeline
Astoria
Honoria
I adore the name Luna, but I heard it first as the title of a Smashing Pumpkins song.

I do like quite a few but these are my top ten.

Don't forget Seamus

She does have some awesome names in her books. i'm pretty sure i wouldn't use most of them IRL though.

But the couple i do like are :

Harry, Lucius & Hermione.

ETA: Miles too fo course, btu goe without saying

I love from that list:


Arkie
Tobias
Dexter
Caspar



Millicent
Bellatrix
Fleur

ETA - And reading through the lists of others a couple I missed:

Bane
Blaise
Lysander


Aurora
Lavender

I've been trying to convince DH to use Hermione with no success. No fair cause I love it!