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Nymphs are very flirtatious, and seductive. I believe Nymphadora doesn't like her name for that reason. Also, her name means "gift of the Nymphs" so, maybe she doesn't like what the name insinuates.

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'Cos she wants him not to call her Nymphadora.

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She never says. But the fact that it sounds like "nymphomaniac" is probably one reason.

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Because that's what her mother named her- she and her mom don't get together very well 🙂

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