Arabella Figg, Snape & Lilly

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> wrote:
> Okay, I may be going overboard with this Latin thing, but still 
this is pretty cool.  First, I looked up "ara."  It means 
sanctuary.  Next, bella.  It could come from one of these root words:
> 
> bellatrix = female warrior
> belliger = waging war
> bello = fight
> bellum = combat
> belua = monster
> 
> Take your pick, any of them fits in and makes sense.  Now, here's 
the really cool part.
> 
> Take her last name, Figg.  In Latin it would probably come from 
one of these two words:
> 
> figo = establish (that would make sense, she established a 
sanctuary and was there to         wage war if necessary)
> figulus = potter
> 
> Whoa!  Could she have changed her name to avoid association and 
become Arabella Figg instead of Arabella Potter?  Is she Harry's 
great aunt?  Grandmother?  Great grandmother?  Wait!  Don't throw 
anything yet.  Let me defend my wild theory for a moment.  1) The 
Dursleys more than likely would not know any of James Potter's 
family, right?  Right.  2) She may not have appeared with Harry's 
family in the Mirror of Erised, as Dumbledore told Harry "the mirror 
will give us neither knowledge nor truth."
> 
> Okay, I'm admitting it's a really wild theory, but I'm rather fond 
of wild theories.  I think I'll start writing all of my wild 
theories down, one of them's bound to be right! :)

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Ok I'll buy that.  Lets' take it a step further.

We know JK likes to play with names and reversing the letters right.
Like the Mirror of Erised.  Spelled backwards (Desire).  Easy enough.

Lets try it with another name ... Snape... Epans, change the "p" 
to "v".  Does this seem interesting?   Maybe this is why Snape 
dislikes Harry.  Harry represents Snape's sister that was taking 
from him.  Why Voldy didn't have to kill Lilly the night he went to 
kill Harry?  Is this because Lilly Evans Potter was a blood sister 
of a death eater?

Next question,

Are they any Brits out there that know if a director and an 
accountant is the same thing in England?

Mike Zitzmann
Hammond, LA.