avada kedavra - a question

[Chys Sage Lattes]

No: HPFGUIDX 126425


Shunra Shunrata <shunrata at g...> wrote:
> As far as I know from learning Aramaic the original phrase was 
> "avra kedavra" - "I will create with my speech" - i.e. it is a
> charm/spell/whatever of *creation*. In HP I see it as "avada 
> kedavra" which may be seen as coming from the root "avad" to be 
> destroyed - "I will destroy with my speech",  which is pretty 
> much what the avada kedavra is supposed to do. <snip>


It also sounds like Abra Cadabra which was originally written out in 
a series of words and spoken as a chant and used to heal ill people.



Chys