Possible Horcrux

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No: HPFGUIDX 138473

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "njelliot2003" <nelliot at o...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at y...> wrote:
> 
>  > B.t.w., am I the only one who founds that *hor*-crux sounds 
>  > slightly indecent? 
> 
> Nicholas responds:
> Couldn't agree more - slightly indecent with overtones of blasphemy 
> because of the juxtaposition of "hor"/whore and "crux"/cross (from 
> Latin) which I take to mean crucifix. The word gives me the creeps!

If you go looking for trouble you can find it anywhere.  ;-)

First, "crux" doesn't just mean "cross" (which itself in this context 
means a symbol more like a heraldic cross; it also refers to the 
constellation Southern cross and IMO does not automatically 
connote "crucifix", which has a separate and discrete liturgical 
meaning); it also means "a difficult problem or troubling thing."

More interestingly, it also means "the essential or deciding point".

"Hor" of course has nothing to do with "whore" (apart from being a 
homonym).  ;-)  My first thought was that it was related to the Greek 
word for hour/time, "hora."  

But thinking about it more, I came to the conclusion that since it's 
an abbreviation either way, that it probably comes from the Greek 
word "horreum" which in its simplest sense means "storage."

What is interesting is that for LV, "horcrux" means "storage of that 
which is essential or deciding" and for DD, and now Harry, it can 
mean "the stored (or hidden) troubling thing".

My apologies if this has already been covered; the search function for 
yahoogroups doesn't seem quite up to fully sifting through the 
messages here. 

jujube (obviously trying to read some of the "old" HPB messages)