Magical Latin

[kempermentor]

No: HPFGUIDX 186095

> Shelley:
> ...
> Actually, a simple answer to "why Latin at all" might simply date back to a time when only the most learned men had formal studies in magic, similar to the dark ages when only monks could read and kept learning alive, if the general population did not have access to magic schools. Those select few would have been educated in Latin, meaning most of the spells they created would have Latin names as part of keeping that learning segregated from the general population.


Kemper now:
An even simpler answer would be tradition.  
As there is at least one spell outside of a Latin root, it would seem that Latin isn't necessary for a spell to work effectively.  Avada Kedavra seems potent and serviceable enough to be getting on with. 

Snape develops his sectumsempra spell, even though he was most likely not educated in Latin at his Muggle primary school... though Geoff prolly has a better hit on that.  Anyway, he teaches in English as do the other professors. 

Maybe as traditionalists, the WW opposes any passage of a magical Vatican II.

Kemper