Cornelius (was:Fudge: Ever-so-Evil or Bumbling Fool?)

[dembeldei]

No: HPFGUIDX 42960

42936 From: eloiseherisson at a... 
Date: Tue Aug 20, 2002 2:51am
Subject: Re: The Burrow/ Cornelius (was:Fudge: Ever-so-Evil or 
Bumbling Fool?)

Psychchick:
> 
> I apologise if anyone else has brought up this point - I'm still 
about
> 50 posts behind - but I looked up the name "Cornelius" the other 
day,
> and in Latin, it is used to mean "wise."

It is time to mention that I saw a post, on a British HP site, where 
somebody claimed to have researched the name similarities from HP and 
the Arthurian legends.  I had saved the post, though I no longer have 
the quoter's name.  Perhaps someone here can verify or debuke this? 
Here it is:

"there was a bishop named St. Cornelius who, after doing nothing 
spectacular with his time as pope or whatever position he held, he 
was replaced by St. Lucius who was a rather cruel ruler, and abused 
his power. However, there was someone named Arthur who was a commoner 
and continuously fought against Lucius, trying to get him removed 
from power. "

The poster also mentions this:

 "Voldermortus was a wizard known as the dark lord that Merlin 
defeated using a simple spell (according to the stories). ... later 
on in Merlin's history, he crowned Arthur King of England, who 
parallels Arthur weasley in this story."

I haven't had the chance yet to look up those bishops, but maybe it 
is time for us to verify that!  Is it foreshadowing for the Ministry 
of Magic?  Uh oh...

Dembeldei