One Dore closes another Dore opens

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 167625

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl at ...> wrote:
>
> 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....
 
Bart:
> Perhaps Professor Cooking Sherry should have studied numerology a bit more. 
> 
> "You're going to call you child Remus Lupin? Do you WANT him to be bitten by a 
werewolf????"

Geoff:
I'm not sure I quite catch your drift here....

You seem to be suggesting that if you, as a Lupin, gave your 
child the first name of Remus, you are throwing out a challenge 
to destiny to see that he is bitten by a werewolf. OK.

But Voldemort isn't his given name; it was no mistake of a parent. 
Tom Riddle himself set up the anagram to give "flight/theft of 
death" And even that was a wangle, because he had to lose 
the letters for "I am" to make this snappy nom-de-guerre work.