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I've been a bit bemused as to how people have been interpreting 
horcruxes.  I know that JKR's Latin is bad (inferius becoming inferi 
annoys me for a start), and she does use other bits of languages and 
mixes everything about.

But why couldn't a horcrux be a combination of the stem of the Latin 
word hora (hor) meaning hour (or time in some instances) and crux 
meaning cross? I know that Richard did mention hora in his first 
post on the subject, but he seems to discount it, yet, to me it 
would fit.

Wizards use Horcruxes to attempt to escape death - to beat time. So 
given that a "crux" was a cross that the Romans used to crucify 
people on, a horcrux is used to crucify or perhaps beat time - by 
splitting the soul. By splitting the soul, the user is trying to get 
immortality isn't he? This fits with the idea of Voldemort's 
followers being called "Death Eaters" and even his 
nickname "Voldemort" meaning flight from death. IMO this fits better 
than a definition in which the word "soul" is conjured.

Ali,

Taking a short break from Accio and still only 2 reads of HBP under 
her belt