Avada kedavra-abracadabra

[kewiromeo at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 49483

Tyler wrote:

I was thinking about the Avada Kedavra curse today,
how it sounds like 'cadaver', which is fitting, and
also how it sounds like 'abracadabra'. I checked the
HP list of names 
http://www.theninemuses.net/hp/list.html
and found this:
"Avada kedavra" is an Aramaic phrase that means "may
the thing be destroyed." 

Then, I looked 'abracadabra' up in the Penguin
Dictionary of Symbols and read this: "The word derives
from the Hebrew 'abreg ad habra' meaning 'strike dead
with thy lightning'". This seems even closer to the
avada kedavra, what with the flash of green light and
all.
'Abracadabra' has symbolic meaning as a protection
from evil as well, but it deals with evil vanishing
forever from the world never to return, which
obviously did not happen in GoF.

I don't know where I'm going with this, just found it
interesting.

Me:

I had already wrote a little thing on this on my first message to this board. 
Since I have a little knowledge in hebrew matters I will let you in on a 
little secret. Abrah means create and cadabra means as I speak. The origional 
introductory verse would be that. It is a simple Create as I speak message. 
I'm not that good in Hebrew, but if you like the strike down in lightning 
part, so be it. But I'll stick with the simple meaning of the words I have.

Tzvi of Brooklyn


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