Harry's glasses.

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No: HPFGUIDX 77471

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, yellows at a... wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Brief Chronicles

>From the US:
Cadaver is used mostly in medicine.  Medical examiners and 
Pathologists refer to a dead person as a cadaver.