HBP spoiler(ish): Hor-thingies: etymology

[pippin_999]

Space, like time,
engenders forgetfulness;
but it does so
by setting us bodily
free from our 
surroundings and
giving us back
our primitive,
unattached state.
-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Richard:
> My issue remains with JKR's massive leap of anti-etymology in
making "crux"  mean soul. <snip>> I'm not entirely sure if what 
pisses me off most is that I couldn't guess  it, that I lost the best 
part of an hour thinking about it - time which  would've been better 
spent reading, or that it simply doesn't make sense.
> 

Pippin:
No, no, you were so close. Don't give up! What about this? The
cross, metaphorically, is the Christian means of salvation. So a 
horcrux is a "horrible cross" or an "outside the cross" way of saving 
your soul and achieving immortality.  Jo did say these aren't really 
secular books. (Sorry, Kneasy)

Does that make sense?

Pippin