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Tremlett was the surname of a Muggle family,[1] that must have had some distant magical ancestry,[5] as Donaghan Tremlett turned out to be a Muggle-born wizard.[1]

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Tremlett is an English surname of Norman-French origin, derived from Les Trois Minettes, a village in Calvados, France that was apparently once the site of three mines.[6] Given Donaghan's musical profession, it may have been chosen in reference to tremolo (from the Italian, "shaking"), the rapid repetition of a single note or the alternation between multiple notes.[7]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Flash card from Harry Potter Magical Trading Cards
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 23 (The Yule Ball)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 J. K. Rowling's official site
  4. 4.0 4.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 14 (Percy and Padfoot)
  5. 30 July 2007 Bloomsbury Webchat with J.K. Rowling
  6. "Tremlett" on The Internet Surname Database
  7. "Tremolo" on Wiktionary
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