What drives You Know Who? [Non-sequitur]

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No: HPFGUIDX 111338

I should read the back threads - sorry coderaspberry77

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "coderaspberry77" 
<rhinobabies at h...> wrote:
> > 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