What drives You Know Who? [Non-sequitur]

[coderaspberry77]

No: HPFGUIDX 111305

> Perhaps we could get a native French speaker to elaborate on this.
> 'Steal' seems rather nonsensical to me. How would you go about it?
> 
> [Cut to the Death Room in the Department of Mysteries]
> 
> Voiceover: Favourite targets for the Death Eaters are Black Veils.
> 
> [A group of Death Eaters runs onscreen from the right, grabs the
> corners of the stone arch, lifts it and runs away with it]
> 
> - Kizor, who's sincerely sorry for the bad Python reference

Heh - I'm not sorry for the reference at all.  It amused me.

As for the "stealing" part, I thought about this in passing awhile 
ago, as well, and while I'm certainly not a native French speaker, I 
live in a bilingual province, so I'm not TOTALLY unaware.  Anyway, 
my thought was that it might be more of a stealing FROM death type 
of thing - not a literal translation - and that could very much 
apply.  Voldemort, by seeking immortality, is basically "stealing 
from death" - that is to say, cheating it.  To have him flee from 
death makes him less, I don't know, impressive or something.

coderaspberry, who is waiting for someone who actually KNOWS French 
to come along and make his silly musings look pedestrian