What's in a name? Dumbledore....

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 1379

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Scott " <harry_potter00 at y...> 
wrote:

> Albus...Ok that's not hard, it means white in latin. 

In Latin, "white" meant "clean" and "pure". Our words "candidate" 
and "candid" (a connection that assumes a LOT) come from another 
Latin word for white, "candidus". He could have been Candidus and 
reminded us all of the naive but honorable young man who believed his 
tutor who taught that everything that happens is for the best.

I believe the reason that "Albus" sounds like "Albion" is that 
Albion, an old poetic name for the island of Britain, was named after 
the White Cliffs of Dover.