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Harry Potter
by J. K. Rowling (Joane Kathleen Rowling)This books are great! At first I thought they sounded kind of weird, but when I bought one I thought it was really good. It is about a boy named Harry Potter who is adopted by his horible aunt and uncle and he can do really strange things. Then a mystical letter arives and soon after that he learns he is a wizard! Read all of the books of Harry Potter to find out about all his adventures at Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry while he battles with the altimate dark lord. My favorite one of these books is Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Askaban book 3.
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(August 4, 2008 - 11:42 pm)
(August 4, 2008 - 11:42 pm)
Oh, political fairy tales... How I love James Finn Garner. XD
(February 25, 2010 - 1:01 pm)
Political fairytale? ...Like Wicked, kind of? (though presumably more, ahem, PG?)
That would be epic.
(February 26, 2010 - 7:15 pm)
Urrrrgh!!!! It really irks me that this thread is dying AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! Now i will try to resurrect it AGAI.
OK let's discuss name meanings: on the BAB HP thread i mentioned that "Draco" means dragon or serpent. I also found out that "Voldemort" in French means flight of death, or theft of death. And "Fleur" means flower in French. The rest of the names like "Nymphadora", "Dumbledore"( it sounds like it derived from something!) "Hogwarts" (this is actually a type of flower, but I can't get what languge it derived from). So if you find any names from Harry Potter that have meanings(excepting actual names like Hermione, Harry , Ronald, etc.) please share. Even if you did not find one, send a comment, please!!!!!!!!! This thread is dying!!!!!
(March 9, 2010 - 8:19 pm)
@Elizabeth: Nymphadora could have benn derived from the English word "nymph" having to do with bugs metamophosing into an adult bug, or the word "nymphalid" meaning a beautiful and brightly colored butterfly. Dumbledore is old English for funny bee. Hermione is a character from a Greek mythology who was the daughter of Menelaus and Helen. Rubeus is Latin for "red in color", and since in Harry Potter there is a lot to do with alchemical stages, I'm surprised that Hagrid never died because each stage in the alchemical stages must die off so the next one can come eventually resulting in a piece of lead turning into gold and everything somehow becoming connected as one *deep breath*. I'll post more later...
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(April 9, 2010 - 6:26 pm)
I take Latin, so I can guess at some stuff. Luna means moon :), and Bellatrix is derived from bellum, meaning war. (By the way, the Hogwarts motto is Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus, meaning never tickle a sleeping dragon
. (Well, not literally, but close enough). Xenophilus I have no idea, i think it is Greek.... Oh yeah, a lot of the spells are in the first person singular present form, like accio. Expelliarmus is first plural. And silencio is totally made up. If you were telling something to be quiet, you would say tace! (an English derivative is taciturn). And I have no idea where avada kedavra comes from. It is not Latin.
Anyway, Filius (flitwick) means son in Latin, and Dolores, I think, comes from a word meaning pain.
Any Latin nerds out there? It is really a cool language (even if they only speak it in the Vatican) and hp + Latin = awesomeness.
Well, I was once considered a Latin scholar, Luna. I think Dolores is realated to the word that means grief or sadness. As for avada kedavra, it makes me think of abracadabra. Maybe that's where it comes from. Faber est quisque suae fortunae.
Old Cricket
(November 5, 2010 - 4:07 pm)
Sorry, I forgot. Albus means white. This is interesting, pius (thicknesse) means affectionate.. hm... Rufus means red-haired. Cornelius comes from the word cornu, meaing horn. Patronus means protector, advocate. Legilimens comes from the verb legere, meaning to read...
Btw, Hermione was the name of the daughter of Menelaus and Helen (eventually of Troy). Her mother took her with her when Helen left Menelaus for Paris (the person). If you read the Odyssey you can find out more.
P.S. More about Latin, Luna. Studying it really helps with spelling and learning English vocabulary and the romance languages such as Italian.
Old Cricket
(November 5, 2010 - 4:20 pm)
I am always so amazed at the quantity of names and how original they are JKR has found! Andromeda (Tonks's mom) is some princess in Greek Mythology. I'm French, so Fleur Delacour sort of sounds like Flower from the Court, (or maybe backyard)! Minerva is Athena (the goddess of wisdom) is Roman, so I think it makes sense for Minerva Mcgonagal to have that name. ( I am so sorry, I think I spelled it wrong!!!)
Just a quick question; are any of you little bugs Harry Potter fans? Anybuggy? (Tater? Or are you more into nonficiton?)
Oh, wheee! We all love Harry Potter! But I love nonfiction, too!
Tater
(November 11, 2011 - 6:56 pm)
Sounds good. I've never read it. Even if I did, I would think it is a good book.
(March 15, 2010 - 9:36 am)
OOO, a comment, sorry i could not reply sooner... lets just say i was buisy( well actually grounded.....) i think you should read it, i relly regret not reading it sooner.
(March 27, 2010 - 5:53 pm)
You're right about her name being Joanne Kathleen, not Joane Katheren like someone else wrote.
(April 10, 2010 - 4:33 pm)
Ahem. Sorry about my previous comment. It didn't come out exactly the way I intended. ;)
Anyway, Dumbledore is a type of bee. Severus comes from a Latin word that means 'strict' or 'astute,' and Sanguini comes from various Latin words that have to do with blood. Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom and battle. Weasley is derived from the word 'weasel.' Sirius is the name of a star, called 'The Dog Star.' Remus was the name of a boy in Roman mythology who was raised by wolves, and Lupin means 'wolf.' Bellatrix comes from the Latin word 'bellum,' meaning war. Luna means 'moon,' and I think Xenophilius means 'stranger-loving' or 'foreigner-loving' or something of that sort. Avis is derived from the Latin word 'ave,' meaning bird.
(April 11, 2010 - 6:52 pm)
@Ima: Bellatrix is actually a word itself meaning woman warrior.
Did anyone notice that the Evan sisters' names are both flowers?; Petunia, Lily. I bet that has something to do with something...
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(April 12, 2010 - 8:14 am)
WOW some one actually posted a comment!!!!! it only took you like, FOREVER!!!
don't get me wrong... i LOVE having comments on this page!!!
yes i noticed that the evans' are named flowers.... i don't know what jkr ment by that, but when ever i think of a lily flower i think of something white and pure, but a petunia i allways think looks like it is trying to hard to be pretty, and because of that it kind of makes them less pretty than other flowers(this is just my opinion though) i kind of thought that my thoughts on the flowers kind of were similar to the evans girls' personality. i will tell more tomoro... i have to go
(April 14, 2010 - 11:44 pm)
Good point. Or maybe JKR likes the name Lily and not Petunia. *shrug* After what we know about her from DH, I actually feel kind fo bad for Petunia. Her hatred for Lily is at least partly from jealousy. Lily got to be a witch, and Petunia wanted to. She was so angry that she convinced herself that she didn't want it, and that witches were freaks. But I don't think she's 100% conviced of that.
(April 15, 2010 - 5:48 pm)
Bellatrix is also the brightest star in the constellation Orion (the name of her uncle, incidentally), in keeping with the Black family tradition of naming children after celestial bodies/constellations (except for Narcissa, for some reason). And I believe Regulus means something like the little king, and it's the brightest star in the constellation Leo. Andromeda, of course, is both a mythological character, a constellation, and a galaxy.
Random: I find it vaguely amusing that a family as obsessed with pureblood heritage as the Blacks were would have such a long standing tradition of naming their children after muggle constellations and mythological figures.
/obsession
(April 28, 2010 - 11:25 pm)