Star Gazing

[hpfan_mom]

No: HPFGUIDX 154105

> Carol wrote:

>SNIP<
 
> And, of course, she [Narcissa] continued the Black family 
tradition, giving her child the name of a constellation even though 
she married a Malfoy (where the tradition is less clear--Lucius is 
clearly Latin and related to light, but Abraxas has Gnostic and 
numerological connections that someone else may want to explore--
note "abra" as in
"abracadabra"?

hpfan_mom now:

Ooo, abracadabra.  In Hebrew, abra k'adabra, "I will create as I 
speak."  The interesting part is that in the Hebrew alphabet the 
letters B and V are almost the same.  If we substitute V for B in 
abracadabra we've got avracadavra . . . Avada Kedavra, anyone?  The 
intended result of which is the opposite of the Hebrew meaning.

hpfan_mom, sure that this has been mentioned before but not daring to 
take on the search function