[HPforGrownups] Re: "Wizengamot" and "Legilimency"

[Toni Fenech]

No: HPFGUIDX 74122


><<< "derannimer" wrote:...Shoot! Even my dad has enough sense to
>say "AH-clu-MEN-cy!"...I mean to say, what? I mean, I've been
>assuming that the spell form of  "Occlumency" is "Occlumens!" and you
>don't say "aw-KLU-mens," do you? Nah, of course you don't. You
>say "AH-clu-mens!" And "LEH-gi-li-mens!"...>>>
>
>The Sergeant Majorette says:
>
>In my young days, back when dinosaurs roamed the land and cool people
>referred to St. Au-GUS-tin (Augustine) and St. JER-um (Jerome), we
>would not have said either one. We would have dug up a proper
>imperative verb form and said something like "Mens Occlude" or
>however "Mind, close yourself!" would translate.
>
>Seriously, though, there doesn't seem to be a spell form
>of 'occlumens', you do it or you *are* it. As for 'legilimens', I
>tried it and found I needed an emphasis on the last syllable to
>synchronize with my wand gesture, like this: "(the windup)LEH-gi-
>li" "-(and the pitch)MENS!"
>
>Even more seriously, it's probably a good thing I'm out of the Army,
>because I would definitely have tried this on some hapless second
>lieutenant. >>>

Hi, well I agree with you about the Occlumency or Occlumens,  good to see 
someone has a sense of humor, also I don't think I'll let my son see this as 
he is in the Army and it might give him ideas.
Again good one JDR.

"Toni Fenech"