What drives You Know Who? [Non-sequitur]

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No: HPFGUIDX 111385

> macfotuk  <macfotuk at y...> wrote:
> > Oh come on everybody. JKR is the queen of names. Names have 
> > significance.
> 
> > Vol - steal/thief
> 
> > de = of
> 
> > Mort = death
> 
> > Cheater of death
> 
> > It's about death, .....well immortality
> > absence/cheating of death)


Erika (Wolfraven) <erikal at m...> wrote:
> All right, here's my two cents on the issue...
> 
> "Vol" in French is a noun meaning "theft" or "flight" ("voler" 
> is the verb and means "to fly" or "to steal" and a "thief" is 
> a "voleur"). The preposition "de" is translated into English 
> as "from" or "of" depending on the context. This leaves us with
> the following possibilities: "theft from death," "theft of 
> death" "flight of death," or "flight from death".
> 
> I think any of these translations can describe one aspect of 
> another of Voldemort's character. <snip>



I would like to add that in Catalan (Spanish language/dialect) Vol 
has two meanings:

Vol - he wants (from de verb voler = to want)
Vol - flight (noun)

de - "of" is a preoposition in Spanish and Catalan.

mort - is the Catalan word for "death" 

Then my translations are  "he wants of death" and "flight of death". 
The first one doesn't fit very well... anyway I thought it could be 
interesting.

Ester