What drives You Know Who? [Non-sequitur]

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 111339

> > Dungrollin:
> > > 'Voldemort' is French (vol de mort) and can be translated 
as 'flight 
> > > of/from death' (though there may be other ways).
> > 
> > Another way is 'Steal of Death.'
> > 
> > "andreoe" 
> 
> While we certainly can't rule out anything, what with dealing with 
JKR
> here and all, the 'flight' translation seems more fitting, plus it
> matches with the names-as-adjectives thing we've seen very much of.
> Perhaps we could get a native French speaker to elaborate on this.
> 'Steal' seems rather nonsensical to me. How would you go about it?
> 
Dungrollin:
I'm with 'andreoe' on this, though I'd translate that version 
as 'theft of death', though that's rather literal, because in French 
that's how you say 'Death's theft'. (I'm not a native French 
speaker, but I can speak it more-or-less.)

I originally thought that 'flight from' was better (ie. it fit in 
with my secret theories), though with Riddle's (and later You Know 
Who's) extreme arrogance in the chamber at the end of CoS, 'flight', 
implying fleeing, doesn't entirely fit, and now I'm not sure... 

Unless he has a secret terror of death.
Dungrollin.x