HBP prediction contest: comments wanted

[sesc79]

No: HPFGUIDX 129607

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "njelliot2003" <nelliot at o...> 
wrote:
> Draco Malfoy will also die though his death may be held over till 
> book 7. The canonical evidence for Draco's death is terrifically 
> sound – in PS, the first Fat Lady password Harry hears is "Caput 
> Draconis" (pg. 96). Caput means dead doesn't it? It did in the 
> Comic Book German we used at school.


No it doesn't. Sorry :-)
That is, "kaputt" *in German* means 'destroyed' / 'beat-up' / 'kaput 
:)'. So that would fit your theory more or less, although a German 
native speaker would rarely use it to mean 'dead' (well, I wouldn't).

*In Latin*, however, - which we are dealing with in this case, after 
all -, "caput" means 'head' -- quite something else.
One might argue, of course, that this foreshadows Draco Malfoy's head 
being presented on a platter at some point (quite like John the 
Baptist in the bible)... <shudder> not sure that this is the end I 
want for Draco...

/Sebastian
(first post to this group, if I'm not mistaken, so: hello everyone!)