One Dore closes another Dore opens

Geoff Bannister gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Mon Apr 16 11:56:37 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 167609

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Barry" <whealthinc at ...> wrote:
>
> > Magpie:
> > Peeves is the personification of the spirit of 
> > chaos, period. His origins are mysterious, but he was never alive as a 
> > human. He's always just been an entity, it seems.

Barry:
> A nice description. But here is a definition from Wikipedia: 
> Poltergeist... German for noisy ghost
> I guess everyone knows that Voldemort is French = vol-de-mort = flight
> of/from death

Geoff:
It has also been pointed out in previous posts that it can also 
mean "theft of death". Looking at Voldemort's wish for immortality, 
it would seem that both these translations could fit - another 
example of JKR's playing with words....





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