Horcrux: was Baptism/Christianity in HP

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No: HPFGUIDX 153912

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at ...> wrote:

>  but
 *Vol* (from French *voler*) can certainly mean both `flight' 
> and `theft' which makes it perfectly OK for `theft of death' 
> and `flight OF death'. But I believe `flight FROM death' is a `false 
> friend'. Because voler means `to fly' in the sense to `be airborne' 
> not in the sense `to flee, to escape'. The right verb for `to flee' 
> is probably *fuir* (or in the reflexive form *s'enfuir* ). And the 
> corresponding noun is *fuite*. (Or maybe *fugue* from *fuguer* -- 
> the same root as in English *fugitive*.).  So `flight FROM death' 
> would be something like Fuite-de-Mort, not Vol-de-Mort.
>
Besides, I cannot imagine somebody as arrogant and full of superiority
as Tommy to choose a name with flee in it, describe himself as a
thief. Now conquering, that would be different. 

Gerry