Accidental Harrycrux : another question

[felix_quinn]

No: HPFGUIDX 155344

>Snip< Luna:
> And BTW, have anyone given a thought to the word Horcrux?
> Crux is the latin word for cross...
> What are the implications of the word cross being part of this term?


I actually thought of 'cross' at first, and it's entirely possible 
that that may be the implication, as it's the most obvious. After 
thinking about it, though, I thought of  few other possibilities- In 
Afrikaans, a 'kruk' is something used as support, or possibly as 
backup. It's usually used to indicate something that someone relies 
heavily on, sometimes too much. It might be a bit of a stretch, but 
as I was reading it for the first time, this was actually what it 
struck me as sounding like, or what the _concept_ sounded like. I 
know that many times with the names of some of the spells, they seem 
to make some kind of sense, even when I can't exactly remember the 
word the spell is reminding me of, but I just know that it fits-
 "lumos" reminds me illuminate, (I'm quite aware of the latin 
influences) but even though I couldn't immediately remember which 
word it sounded like, I knew I understood her reasoning. It was the 
same feeling with "horcrux" and the Afrikaans word "kruk". I'm quite 
sure that seeing as how Afrikaans is a relatively young language, and 
I know it borrows heavily from other more traditional languages, that 
the word "kruk" is not exclusive to Afrikaans, and that it could have 
relation to "horcrux". The other thing I thought of was that "crux" 
also indicates "the heart of the matter" or "core"- could there 
possibly be something in that? Of course, "crux" could quite simply 
be a reference to "cross", in which case it simply indicates the 
presence of death.

Felix