Horcrux: was Baptism/Christianity in HP

[leslie41]

No: HPFGUIDX 153704


> > > Leslie41:
> > > Do you doubt that "crux" means "cross"?  
> > 
> > a_svirn:
> > I don't. It was your neologism *whorecrosses*  that sounds like 
> > rubbish to me, not your translation of *crux*.  
> > 
> Nikkalmati: 
> Connecting words by means of sound is not an accepted 
> etymological  technique.  Hor- has nothing to do with whore.  

Leslie41:  

Yes it does.  It's the etymological origin of the word, found in old 
and middle English.  I was not tracing etymology by sound, 
especially considering that (at least in English) vowel sounds 
change so drastically.  I was tracing etymology by spelling, which 
can also be unreliable but at least is a better gauge because it 
remains constant for longer.

> Nikkalmati:
> I also find the image  of the cross, as a religious symbol, and 
> the concept of a whore a troubling and  inappropriate 
> juxtaposition.

Leslie41:
Well it might, if Dumbledore were making horcruxes.  But it doesn't 
surprise me at all that Voldemort might make them.  He's perverting 
the cross.