The grandmother … raised her under the dolesome eyes of a multicoloured Virgin Mary.

So sentences in which a referenceless name occurs have no sense, either.

The world is overrun with fluffies. There was, I think, always a fluffy element to the neo-Pagan movement, but since the Internet explosion of the mid-to-late 1990s, it's got much, much worse. Most of it can be blamed on commercial drivers, as the publishers who produced neo-Pagan material (and the authors who work for them) realised that there was a vast market for teen-witch kits, bogus grimoires, etc, and set out to exploit it […]

“It's too bad your Slytherin brother can't be persuaded to tell the truth to Will,” Annabeth mused. “Not unless there's something in it for him.”