Still asking about Mysterious Symbols on Pensieve

[AliMcJ]

No: HPFGUIDX 155246

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, MadameSSnape at ... wrote:
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> In a message dated 6/20/2006 2:13:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> alimcj at ... writes:
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> Does anyone have any idea what the other symbols on the Pensieve
could
> be?
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> Runes and astrological symbols are there and Harry would  recognize
> them; there are others that book (Goblet of Fire) says he does
not
> recognize.
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> Greek? Hebrew? Aramaic magic or magical symbols as  from Waite??
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> Sherrie here:
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> There are several magickal alphabets that are used for various
purposes.
> The Futhark runes are the best known, but there is also the
Theban alphabet,
> the Enochian, the Ogham, as well as various alchemical  systems.
The symbols
> could be any of the above - they could even be  Oriental scripts,
elemental
> symbols, pictographs...
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> Sherrie
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Thanks Sherrie for thinking about this.

It is possible that it is another of the runic alphabets, although
that would seem redundant.  It also occurred to me that it could be
Chinese Characters (used also as Kanji in Japanese), but it would
seen that he would recognize them as "some sort of Chinese" even
while not knowing what they mean; likewise Arabic.

Somehow, it seems significant to me, and I am looking for some other
reference to what they might be, that is, some other source that is
perhaps offhandedly mentioned somewhere in one of the books.

Right now, all I am getting is a pun on "It's Greek to me," but then
he should be able to recognize Greek letters as Greek....

It's something I keep thinking and puzzling about.

I suspect that they might be the crosses with circles on the ends as
in Waite -- and these can step into the realm of dark arts.

I'm puzzling over what symbols Harry must not have had any exposure
to as far as what we know of him, his life, his education.  Hebrew
is about all I can think of -- and it is relevant to Cabalistic
teachings, which have never been mentioned in the HP texts.

alimcj