[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Runes in Sirius's "wanted" poster

[Odile Falaise]

--- Dean <dean7712000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I found slightly different means for the runes.
> 
> "Gifu represents the ability to sacrifice, to give
> without expecting 
> anything in return"
> 
> "Algiz is a very important rune for many things, and
> mayby most of 
> all protection. It represents the animal kingdom."
> 
> This somes up Sirus very well after the events of
> book five.

Odile again:

Erm, that's interesting.  Indeed, Gifu can be
interpreted in that way, although its traditional
sense is one of exchange - "...a gift demands a
gift..." as it says in the Havamal - hence the X
shape, where the two lines are of equal length.  

However, I have never known Algiz to be interpreted in
that way; I have never seen it associated with the
Animal Kingdom.  Where did you find that reference?

And what stumps me is that yes, these two runes are in
his *prisoner ID*, i.e., the folks at *Azkaban*
assigned them to Sirius - why would they use runes
with positive connotations?  It's not like they would
be obscure to the Wizards and Witches of the
Potterverse.

> 
> This has got me very interested does anyone know if
> there are any 
> references to runes the the previous films.
> 
> Dean

I haven't caught any... just passing references in the
books.  Unless you want to revisit the old debate as
to the shape of Harry's scar: Eiwaz? Or Sowulo? in
which case you might want to have a look at messages
81951 and 81960 over at the Harry Potter for GrownUps
archive.  ^_^

Odile