Whats in a name, Latin.

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 71084


I am getting a little waaay tooo into the Latin texts that people 
have associated with the HP works. I should be studying calculus.

A little trivia about the Latin translations of Harry Potter names.

Voldemort means; wish to avoid Death. 

Potter can mean able or determined.

Dumbledore can be split in to dum-b/ple-dore 
and hence can be viewed as: while much is given.
Quite apt, I believe since our experience of Dumbledore *is* while 
much is given........ you know the rest.

-Avada Kedavra- can be a little contrived and separated and mean;
 cast aside ; yield breath.

-Evanesco- also contrivedly but its interesting; 'eva' as later 
and 'esc' as a suffix that gives begin or grow.  So the object is 
vanished from now and sent to later. Rather than made to be gone 
completely. I wonder if everyone 'evanesco'ed a whole lot of things 
at once would _later_ become a little crowded. :b


Some more manipulation gives us curious spin on Evans also.
Taking a latin view of ~eva~ we get ~later~. 
~n~ and 'es' then spun a little _too_ much can be forced into the 
mould of exists in numbers.
Although I have taken much poetic license here and probably am just 
fooling with the word for my own amusement, I am going to post anyway.
Simply because I like the way it foreshadows that Lily's all but 
extinct bloodline might be more abundant in the HP future.

Marvolo, LV's middle name curiously in latin is; My own will.
Tom, sounding like tum in latin means; also.
Riddle yeilds no real latin derivatives besides ~ri~ which is;a thing.

I am guessing the real importance of the name is in Tom Marvolo. The 
name Marvolo represents choice, and preceeds Riddle. However the name 
Tom preceeds the will. I am guessing this could actually be alluding 
to Voldemort having no choice over whether he is Tom.  
Given that 'Tom' is meaning 'also', perhaps he will also be Tom 
regardless of who else he becomes by his will.

Valky