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(1/24/01 9:38 am) Reply
Names
Saw this in the paper this morning, a list of what various HP names mean. Some of these might already be common knowledge:
--Beauxbatons: French for "beautiful wands" (actually the word for "wand" in French should be baguette, not baton, but hey...)
--Dobby: A "dobby" is a loom attachment used for weaving small figures; also a term for a brownie elf.
--Albus Dumbledore: "Dumbledore" is an old English word meaning "bumblebee"; "albus" is Latin for "white".
--Durmstrang: Likely a word play on the German expression "Sturm und Drang", which means "storm and stress".
--Expecto patronem: "Patronus" is the Latin word for protector. A lot of the spell words used seem to be Latin.
--Hagrid: From the Old English "hagridden", meaning "having a nightmarish night" (maybe that's why he's so disheveled all the time); also looked up Rubeus, it's Latin for "reddish".
--Hedwig: a medieval saint's name.
--Remus Lupin: Lupin comes from the Latin for "wolf" (lupus); Remus from Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome who were suckled by a she-wolf.
--Draco Malfoy: Draco is Latin for "dragon"; Malfoy means "bad faith" in old French.
--Voldemort: Means "flight of death" in French.
--Severus Snape: "severus" means "severe" in Latin.
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(1/27/01 11:39 am) Reply
Re: Names
thx for info thats very interesting(sp*)keep postin good job
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Eruve About to start training
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(1/28/01 11:13 am) Reply
Re: Names
Forgot Sirius, which is the dog star....
Also I'd be curious to know if J. K. Rowling is a Tolkien fan. Karkaroff's name sounds an awful lot like Carcharoth (the "ch" here is pronounced as in German, not English). Carcharoth is a really nasty wolf who appears in The Silmarillion; he is the guardian of the original Dark Lord's stronghold, he bites off Beren's hand and ends up killing Beren later... but Beren comes back to life.
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