I wanted to think of something kinda creepy, swamp-like, and I thought of murky. Then I used the name "marvolo" and kinda squished them together to make Murkolo. The last name is just something that popped into my head. :D I didn't want to use any names original to the books (etc. Severus, Harry, Lu...

My absolute favorite charater is Snape, I can relate to him, not being one of the "coolest" in school and having people like James around. How I hate James and Sirius. They are the one reason I'm glad I wasn't sorted into Gryffindor, even though I have no problem with the house itself. I just didn't...

My favorite series, besides HP is "The Dark Tower" by Stephen King. I also like LotR, Magic Tree House (laugh all you like xD) and The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett.