[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's glasses.

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In a message dated 8/15/2003 6:12:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gbannister10 writes:

> Geoff:
> I hadn't. I tend to associate it more with "Abracadabra". 
> Also "cadaver" is not a word which is used much in the UK. 
> It's more of an American word. We stick to the more genteel "corpse".
> :-)

Well, I don't know what Americans you know, but I'm from the US, and we don't walk around saying "Cadaver, cadaver, cadaver."  <g>  We usually just say "Dead body." Or "Corpse." But cadaver *is* a word for dead body, and I think JKR must have used this in her alteration of "Abracadabra" to create her meaning.

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