JK Rowling gives character full name: Myrtle Elizabeth Warren

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[lump in the melting pot]

A Harry Potter character shares the same name as a prominent U.S. senator, author JK Rowling has revealed. "Moaning Myrtle's full name was Myrtle Elizabeth Warren," the author tweeted on Monday.

Ms Rowling quickly denied that the namesake had anything to do with Ms Warren, a well-known Democratic senator from Massachusetts. Fans asked on Twitter whether Rowling made up the name on the spot. She replied that she already knew Warren was Myrtle's last name, but she said Elizabeth because it is a "classic British middle name". Rowling said she laughed at the idea that Myrtle would be named after Ms. Warren.

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Moaning Myrtle sounds like a great nickname for Senator Warren actually...

[Politicalkiddo]

I’m sure Moaning Myrtle is more Cherokee than Warren.

[GeronL]

Now that she made her bundle she is going to burn it down

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Politicalkiddo]

Kind of looks like a distorted Miley Cyrus.

[kaehurowing]

I remember her from F Troop.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Hahahaha! I knew Larry Storch as a young boy.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Larry Storch was a true original.

Did you ever see this movie...

The Monitors

[RginTN]

Rowling is a Socialist. She may be naming a character after another Socialist

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

If Warren had to scalp someone could she only steal their toupee since she’s a fake Indian?

[lump in the melting pot]

[Bobalu]

[fieldmarshaldj]

Squaw Spreading Bull.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Fauxcahontas would have to move well to the right to become a Socialist. She’s a Stalinist.

[Vaquero]

Shut the f*** up Donnie, You're out of your element.

Walter... “Big Lebowski”

[Vaquero]

Wouldn’t care to see that ride a wrecking ball

[I-ambush]

The Monitors are here
They’re bringing lots of cheer
So there’s no need to fear
The Monitors are here
The Monitors!

Strange how that jingle stuck with me even though I haven’t seen that movie in over 30 years

[Buckeye McFrog]

Hogwarts School of Economics

[kaehurowing]

The supposedly true story of how Elizabeth Warren’s Hegawi Tribe got its name is told by its mighty chief in F-Troop. Supposedly their former neighborhood was ruined by the Pilgrims, and so they went to look for new lands in the West.

They wandered through the wilderness, not knowing where they were, until one day they fell off a large cliff. When they recovered from the fall, they asked each other, “where the heck are we?” (We’re the Hegawi.) And that is how they got their name.

It was rumored that the tribe’s initial name was going to be the “Fugawi,” but that did not get past the censors.

I read this somewhere on the internet, so it must be true.

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Clever marketing strategy. "Releasing" a few "details" like this every few years keeps her name and titles in the news. Sort of like the Dumbledore gay thing a while back.