Simple spell origin, Krum, Slytherins, Prefects

kewiromeo at aol.com kewiromeo at aol.com
Fri Dec 27 08:07:58 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 48856

<A HREF="http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/spells_a.html">HPL: Encyclopedia of Spells</A>  states for the "killing" curse as this for a 
note :
Abracadabra is a cabbalistic charm in Judaic mythology that is supposed to 
bring healing powers. One of its sources is believed to be from Aramaic avada 
kedavra, another is the Phoenician alphabet (a-bra-ca-dabra).

For a little insight into magic I would like to state that one of the first 
spells to come into play was "Abracadabra" which for anyone who knows hebrew 
can simply be translated as "Abra" = create "cadabra" = like I speak. Just a 
little insight into one of the simplest spells.

This is my first time posting, so I hope you all go easy on me. I will 
appreciate any insight further into my ideas.

Second on my list is the ending of GoF. Krum had given a last, private, 
farewell to Hermione. My belief is that he had either noticed that Ron was in 
love with her, which I doubt as he will have noticed since Ron didn't say a 
word to him the whole year, but it is always a possibility. I believe that 
JKR had said that Hermione and Harry would not end up together, however I 
believe that Krum that told her that Harry would need her more than he would. 
He noticed that she cares about him more than anything and therefor putting 
his own feelings aside. This is why I believe she kissed him at the end of 
the book.

And third on my list is belief that only Slytherin witches and wizards went 
bad. Everyone knows that there wasn't a witch or wizard that went bad that 
wasn't from Slytherin. This would mean that Wormtail had been from Slytherin 
or a turncoat against the Gryffindor friends. If not, this would mean that 
Remus, James, and Sirius were friends with a Slytherin. So you can't rule out 
only Slytherins as being bad. 

This brings me to my next question. We are all pretty sure that Hermione will 
be made prefect. Are there only one prefect per year? However, we all know 
Harry is always special. Does  this mean that he won't be made prefect? We 
know that James and Lily were head boy and head girl, and I would assume that 
they were both in Gryffindor and the lexicon says that they were in the same 
year. Either they were made prefects at the same time or there is another 
prefect for each year consecutively i.e. there would be a prefect for every 
year past 4th for each year.

I have many more questions, but I will leave them for a later time.

Tzvi of Brooklyn





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