Percy's sickle <snipped>

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 150760


> Tonks:

> Sickle is the cutting mechanism of a reaper. (Like what the Grim 
> Reaper carries. So maybe is means something to do with death. Or 
> reaping what you sow for Percy.) 

Finwitch: Also, Sickle's been a smaller cutting device - and ancient 
Druids may have used one to cut their Herbs with. I think it's 
possible that in the days when wizards and Muggles still were 
together, the price for a sickle (made by a blacksmith, who might 
have been a wizard, too... at least there are tales of the 'magical' 
reputation of smithery.) was a Piece of Silver of certain weight. 
Thus, a Silver Sickle.

Tonks:
 
> Galleon is A large three-masted sailing ship with a square rig and 
> usually two or more decks, used from the 15th to the 17th century 
> especially by Spain as a merchant ship or warship.

Finwitch:

And that, also, follows my theory. A ship like that would certainly 
be worth Gold, wouldn't you say?

Tonks: 
> Knut: king of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide 
> England with him; on the death of Edmund II, Canute became king of 
> all England (994-1035) [syn: Canute, Cnut, Knut, Canute the Great]
> 
> I seached the web for Canute the Great and found some interesting 
> information and a picture that I have seen somewhere before. And it 
> may have been in connection with the HP books, but I am not sure. 
> Here is the link:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canute_the_Great

Finwitch:

Well... Curiously, that king looks like the king in Tarot cards! Plus 
he was elevated by a body with a name that sounds like Wizengamot. So 
there's at least *something* here inspiring Rowling's collection of 
names.

Additionally, though, knut is Swedish for knot. I'm not certain, but 
Knut may have been an old word for knot...

And speaking Danish/Norwegian king -- a descendant of vikings. 
Vikings used Runes!

Finwitch