HA! WAS Re: Voldemort in need of a good memory aid?

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No: HPFGUIDX 35188

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Saitaina" <saitaina at w...> wrote:
> Probably mentioned but I must bring it up after re-reading 
CoS....Voldemort
> has a horrible memory for important things.  He forgot the old 
magic's that
> kept Harry alive and his younger self forgot the healing powers of 
the
> Phoenix.  Makes me wonder what else he could have, will have 
forgotten.
> Could this be another plot point we will see again?  Could 
Voldemort one day
> forget how to pronounce Avada Kadavra?
> 

It's silly, but I just had to write this.

Right after I read this post, I just got this funny image in my head 
of the final duel in Book VII (should there be such a thing).  After 
revelation after revelation and spectacular duel description after 
spectacular duel description, Harry lies wounded with Voldemort 
pointing his wand at him.

"Ha ha!  I have you now Potter.  The curse won't bounce this time!  
Avada..."  Puzzled pause..."Avada...Avada..."

Harry, his wand vaguely pointed in Voldemort's direction, innocently 
suggests without any malicious intent, "Avada Kedavra?"

Whoosh of green light.  Thud.  So ends a rivalry for the ages.

......

Well, I thought it was funny, anyway.

In a slightly more serious bit of discussion (though also silly), 
it's interesting that a mangled form of the killing curse,  
"Abracadabra," has reached Muggle ears.  I guess wizards aren't too 
worried about its presence in English now, but it seems like a mild 
slip-up on the MoM's or someone's part that any form of the killing 
curse survives in the English language at all.  It sort of makes me 
wonder what all bastardized versions of wizard words and knowledge 
Muggles have.  Are there any other examples from canon?  I'm not 
recalling, immediately.

Devin