Runes in Sirius's "wanted" poster

[Amy Z]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "annabellejane97" 
<annabellejane97 at y...> wrote:

> Perhaps the ID is assigned in a manner analogous to the sorting 
> hat.  There could be some magical device that is able to read a 
> prisoner's character and personality and assign an ID
> accordingly.  
> The fact that the rune meanings have positive connotations that 
> would be known in the WW is not necessarily a problem.  It is human 
> nature to interpret something based on a preconceived idea about a 
> person or situation.  I don't pretend to know anything about
> runes, 
> but I have read the posts concerning their meanings.  For exmple, 
> maybe everyone assumed that the gift or exchange was in connection 
> with LV.   Certainly the people that knew the full extent of what 
> Sirius was thought to have done of would have a basis to believe 
> that - Sirius gave the Potters to LV.   Just a thought.

...and a neat one, IMO.  Even leaving Sirius's eventual fate in OoP 
aside, what we have in Sirius is a character who encompasses 
opposites, since his meaning inverts over the course of PoA:  killer 
to protector, perpetrator to victim, criminal to framed 
innocent . . .  

NB:  I am going by a few different websites, and websites may well 
just get their information from each other, not to mention from other 
unreliable sources.  

Gebo/Gyfu carries the meanings of exchange and partnership, and also, 
according to http://members.tripod.com/~AradiaMoonshadow/runes1.html, 
of freedom.  So, two possible interpretations:

-partnership between Sirius and Voldemort (what the WW thought of 
Sirius)
-freedom (what Sirius finally got up to)

Algiz carries the meanings of protection and defense.  I'm having a 
harder time with that one.  Its positive meaning is obvious, because 
Sirius is protecting Harry (and in a sense was protecting James and 
Lily just before his arrest).  But it seems like it's pushing it to 
describe Sirius as a protector or defender of Voldemort.  Anyone got 
an idea?

I don't know if Cuaron's crew chose these runes particularly--I doubt 
it--but I just love them for choosing runes at all for a shot that 
passes in a couple of seconds.  This is the kind of attention to 
detail that makes the books so fantastic, and I love it when the 
moviemakers appreciate it and imitate it.

And I think the art director(s) should be awarded a knighthood, not 
to mention an Oscar.

Amy Z
wondering what the significance of the number 390 might be