Thoughts? Beast and Disillusionment Charm

[Anne R Urbanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 47875

Melpomene wrote:
>So, isn't that backwards? Shouldn't it be an Illusionemnt Charm or 
>an 
>> Anti-Disillusionment Charm, meaning the placement of illusion, false 
>> beliefs, and enchantments, or acting against the lose or removal of 
>> illusion and/or false belief? 
>> 
>> This popped into my head because we were discussing the charms that 
>> might be placed around the Burrow to keep muggles from noticing it. 
>> 
>> Any thoughts? 
>> 
>Well it wouldn't be the only one--backward spell, that is. This is 
>going to come awful close to being a "one liner" but "ENERVATE" as a 
>spell for re-animating an unconcious person is also backwards. 
>Ennervat, according to Websters means "1:to lessen the vitality or 
>strengh of 2: to reduce the mental or moral vigor of."
>Melpomene

It appears to me that JKR actually should have had this spell be
"INNERVATE", which, according to the American Heritage Dictionary Online
(http://www.bartleby.com/61/16/I0151600.html) means: TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: in·ner·vat·ed, in·ner·vat·ing, in·ner·vates
1. To supply
(an organ or a body part) with nerves. 2. To stimulate (a nerve, muscle, or
body part) to action. 

I wondered about the *enervate* spell when I first read it. Innervate would
make much more sense. 

Anne U
(unable to keep up with this list...so I'm just poking my head in for a
brief spell ... pardon the pun ;-)






"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
abilities."  - Albus Dumbledore, in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

"Anyone could be the one to change your life" -- Monte Montgomery
<http://www.montemontgomery.com/>http://www.montemontgomery.com