Movie Hints/'Vipera Evanesca' (Duelling Club)

Diana dianasdolls at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 4 10:13:29 UTC 2003


SnapesRaven wrote:
> Good morning!
> I just read the post and in my memory (everytime I recall it I 
> automatically remember the same word, so I'm quite sure about it) 
> Snape doesn't say 'Impera Evanesca' (like it was guessed in 
another 
> post), but 'Vipera Evanesca'. I looked 'vipera' up in my Latin 
> Dictionary and found out I recalled it correctly: 'vipera' means 
> serpent, viper. I know that in the duelling scene I found this 
spell 
> very fitting.   

Ooh, good ear!  As many times as I've watched that movie, I've never 
heard him say VIPERA.  It always sounded like "e perra" to me.  
Vipera does make a heck of a lot more sense!  

Diana L.





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