11-09-2004, 01:56 PM | #1 |
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Felix Felicis
Right, so we have a new name added to the mystery that is Book 6. Any ideas on who this person is? Do you think it's even a person? Discuss your ideas and speculations here.
(For all of you that's interested in the meaning behind JK's names, 'Felix Felicis' roughly translates from Latin into English as lucky, fortunate, happy. )
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11-09-2004, 02:02 PM | #2 |
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Maybe he's the new DADA teacher, or maybe a protection spell. More advanced that 'Protego'?
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11-09-2004, 02:46 PM | #3 |
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I kinda have the feeling it's not a person. Someone said it sounds like a spell, and I agree. Can't think that there would be a chapter named after something that sounds like it should be a Cheering Charm though.
I like the shield charm idea... that would make sense. I guess it could be kinda like Expecto Patronum, where you have to think happy thoughts to make it. I get that from the name.
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11-09-2004, 04:13 PM | #4 |
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Well the Latin meaning kind of make me think protection, but I don't know?
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Then Huor spoke and said: "Yet if it stands but a little while, then out of your house shall come the hope of Elves and Men. This I say to you, lord, with the eyes of death: though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and me a new star shall arise. Farewell!" The Silmarillion, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Page 230 |
11-09-2004, 06:58 PM | #5 |
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I think the character name is "Felix" and "Felicis" is something else, maybe a spell - so that's it's like the pun in OOTP, "Dudley Demented" (which is a play on Dementor). This chapter title seems to follow the same pattern.
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Felix felicis could be the spell name too, if it is a spell. Spells often have two parts (eg. Wingardium leviosa), and felix is also a latin word:
felix -icis [fruitful , fertile]. Transf., [of good omen, favorable, bringing good luck; fortunate, lucky, successful]; Felix, [the Lucky One, surname of Sulla]. Adv. feliciter, [fruitfully; auspiciously, favorably; luckily, successfully]. From: http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htm
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01-02-2005, 05:51 AM | #8 |
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It also sounds like it could be a scientific name for a plant or animal (most likely a plant), but my best guess is the spell.
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