[HPforGrownups] Re: "Toujours pur" - Black family motto?

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No: HPFGUIDX 113952



Geoff Bannister <gbannister10 at aol.com> wrote:
Geoff:
If I may expand on one or two of the replies which followed your 
post: in the real world, many UK aristocratic families are descended 
from the Normans who came with William of Normandy in 1066 and so 
many family mottos are in French or old Norman French and, of course, 
many mottos are also in Latin - for example, "Draco dormiens nunquam 
titillandus" :-)

Geoff
 

Griffin782002 now:

Hmmm.. I think you are right. I just had a look in "The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter" by David Colbert, which I think is quite good to find out about the myths and facts behind Harry Potter.

Well, it mentions that Malfoy derives from the Latin maleficus, which means evil-doer. And most importantly in French mal foi means bad faith.So, I think their ancestors might have arrived from France.

Griffin782002 who started making silly thuoghts like: what would have happen in the second task if H.P. had come across not Moaning Myrtle but..... Dory (the abscent-minded fish from Finding Nemo) :-P  


		
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