Apostrophe Apostle

I am now the proud owner of a copy of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss. The first time I read of this book's existence, I knew that I had to buy it.

( Comma Confusion )

I've only read half of the book so far, but I LOVED the chapter on apostrophes. Those poor little curves have so much work to do and are so abused. Is it really so hard to write, "Sirius is Remus's lover," instead of "Sirius is Remus' lover"? And may the militant pandas save us all from the people who write, "Sirius is Remus lover."

By the way, Sam, I loved Harry's apostrophe abuse in the latest chapter of Laocoon's Children and that Sirius comments upon the same!

Names? Aisle Twelve

The recent Mary Sue Meme set me wondering, where do you find names for your original characters?

I have used:
people I know (Aoife, Declan, McLaughlin)
my favorite baby name book--heavily
my family tree (Stirling, Hathorne, McKnight)
the newspaper (Longstreth, Aisher)
any--and I mean any--printed material within arm's length of the computer (Statham)
famous witch and wizard cards that come with chocolate frogs (Wildsmith)
minor characters and merely-mentioned names in books written by JKR (Bagshot, Parkin, Prewitt)
and maps, because JKR said in an interview that they were a great place to find names (Charlotte--VT, not NC).

Your turn.