William: meaning 'resolute'

When Molly Weasley found herself pregnant for the seventh time, her main concern (after the fears - perhaps softened a little over the years but never entirely got rid of - over whether the child was healthy and developing normally, after all that, her main concern) was trying to come up with yet another name. She was beginning to regret the agreement Arthur and she had made before Bill was born, but she didn't mean to back down on her side of it, not after this long. It had seemed a good idea at the time: each of their children to have one muggle name (chosen by him) and one wizarding name (chosen by her); with the boys having a muggle first name and a wizarding middle name, and the girls having a wizarding first name, and a muggle middle name. What they hadn't banked on was having quite so many children, and in particular, quite so many boys (though she didn't regret a single one, not even Fred and George at their most exasperating).

Charles: meaning 'strong'

It wasn't that there weren't plenty of traditional male wizarding names left; it was just that so many of them had been tainted by association. No-one, these days, would name their son Bartemius or Rodolphus or Lucius (well, Molly admitted, some would, but no-one she'd choose to associate with). Sometimes she wondered what she was doing, bringing another child into a world in which there was so much fear, and violence, and suffering. But then she thought: if we let fear of them control our lives then they've won. We have to go on living, and loving, and hoping that one day soon we'll win our world back.

Percival: meaning 'piercing'

She could never put into words why it was so important to her that her children had wizarding names. All she knew was that she found something comforting in knowing that, although everyone called her Molly, her true name was Amollitia, the same as her mother's mother, and it gave her a pleasing shiver to think of all the witches before her each with the name that she now bore.

Frederick: meaning 'peaceful'

She decided on Septimus. Edward Septimus Weasley, the boy would be, and by the time the baby was due, she'd convinced herself she liked the name. She didn't let herself hope that, this time, she might be carrying a girl. She was used, now, to the fact that for some reason she and Arthur produced only boys (and she didn't regret a single one, not even Fred and George at their most exasperating).

George: meaning 'a tiller of the soil'

So when, after all the pushing and screaming and swearing (and it was only in the throes of childbirth that Molly Weasley ever really swore), she heard the midwife say "Congratulations! You've got a beautiful baby girl!" she had to ask for it to be repeated twice before she believed it.

Ronald: meaning 'powerful, mighty'

"Have you chosen a name?" the midwife asked, handing her a baby whose face was almost as red as the first wisps of hair growing on her scalp, and who gripped her finger as fiercely as any of the boys ever had.

And Mrs Weasley gave the answer she'd been waiting for years to give.

Ginevra: meaning 'fair one'

"Ginevra," she said looking up at Arthur, who was sitting on the bed beside her smiling with pride and relief (and surely, where there was love like that, which seemed to light up the room, and a baby like this - who at that moment was the most beautiful thing Molly had ever seen - there had to be hope for a brighter future). "Her name is Ginevra."