Half-Blood Prince

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 183871

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
 
Carol:
> Teen!Snape somehow learned Latin (maybe Tobias sent him to a Catholic
> parochial school <g>) or at least enough Latin to create spells with
> appropriate names. Corpus, of course, means "body." The adjective
> "livis" means "light." Putting them together and dropping the awkward
> "e" gives "Levicorpus" ("light body"). 

Geoff:
Interestingly, I have always read this spell as incorporating an element 
from "levo" - to raise, i.e. I interpret the spell as "Raise body".

Carol: 
> for whom "cut always" means "cut always" (unless you know the
> countercurse!)

Geoff:
At least we read this one the same way.