+305 The killing curse in Harry Potter "Avada Kedavra," kind of sounds like a distorted "Abra Ca Dabra", amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's kinda the point

by Anonymous 14 years ago

See,it was deathis totalis before I came along. This is slightly more creative,isn't it?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah really. Like Gregory Goyle sounds like gargoyle. She meant for it to be that way.:]

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Abra Ca Dabra is a kind of flub of the Hebrew Avadakedavra, which meant something along the lines of "To make death" Avada Kedavra is the death spell. Connection made?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Dude you're my hero

by Anonymous 14 years ago

jk rowling connected all of the spells with latin, so they actually have a meaning instead of just being random letters put together.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Abra ca dabra: to create with my words Avada kedavra: to destroy with my words

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And its cool because not only are you destroying the other persons life, but you are also destroying your soul.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No. Way.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Diagon Alley = diagonally Lupin = Lupine (as in the wolf family) I know there are more, I just can't think of them right now....

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Remus was one of the twin brothers in the legend of the creation of Rome. Remus and Romulus were twins who, according to legend, were raised by wolves and then founded Rome.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There was something like that for Fred and George. Like they were brothers. One died and the other was deaf.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I heard about that too, but I can't remember the whole thing.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the funny thing is, JK Rowling practically had Fred's death planned from the second she named him.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Patronus means guardian; Crucio means to crucify or to torture.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Sirius could turn into a dog. Sirius is the Dog Star.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Knockturn Alley = nocturnally. Most of the spells are like that: Lumos sounds like "illuminate", "wingardium leviosa" has "wings" and "levitate", "imperio" is like "imperial" or "imperialism", "expelliarmus" is like "expel arms (weapon)", "stupefy" is an English verb meaning "to stun", "aguamenti" makes water, "evanesco" is like "evanescent", which means quickly fading, and there are so many more.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Lumos means light, levi corpus means lift the body etc.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Bellatrix means 'female/beautiful warrior,' fitting for the only woman Death Eater.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Narcissa?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Plus Narcissa was supposedly prettier. Bellatrix apparently looked like a crack addict.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually, Bellatrix was also supposed to be beautiful until she was imprisoned in Azkaban.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Really? I would assume that she would start getting ugly when she started killing and torturing, and then become crazy-looking after Azkaban.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Narcissa isn't a Death Eater, just the wife of one. Narcissa=narcissistic, caring almost only about appearances. Fair for the supposed prettiest of the Black sisters and the one married to Lucius.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Alecto Carrow was a girl

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It is the original of abracadabra, which means "let the thing be destroyed". Traditionally, it was thought to heal(with the "thing" being an illness), but she used it with the "thing" being the person in front of you, making it a killing curse. She says that at some point in an interview.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Congratulations for pointing out now what most of us figured out 10+ years ago.

by Anonymous 13 years ago