[HPforGrownups] Avada Kedavra Meaning

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 84807

> 12Nov03
>
> Hermowninny wrote:
> I know there's someone in the groups that can enlighten me as to the
> meaning of Avada Kedavra. Also, I'd really like to know where on the
> net I can look up latin meanings.
>

Iggy here:

I love all the grand thories about this.  My personal one is fairly
simple...  It's based on the word "Abracadabra" and altered just enough so
that it's not really that word.

In slight support of Paula, I will point out that there was a ritual one
used in the far past based on the word Abracadabra... It was written in a
descending pyramid on a piece of parchment, dropping one letter at a time
from the end, and was used to get rid of illness as you got rid of the word.
The parchment was worn for a day, then tossed into a fire (IIRC) to finish
the ritual.

ABRACADABRA
ABRACADABR
ABRACADAB
ABRACADA
ABRACAD
ABRACA
ABRAC
ABRA
ABR
AB
A


(Sorry it was in a triangle and not an invirted pyramid, by mailer won't let
me do that...)


Iggy McSnurd