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Originally Posted by elmoro Voldemort. It means flight from Death in French. Avoiding Death. Just brilliant. It is. But it'...

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Voldemort. It means flight from Death in French. Avoiding Death. Just brilliant.
It is.
But it's also, in the context of characterizations, instead of simply JKR's imagination- admittedly, nicely displayed in Vol-de-mort, also somewhat frightening.
Riddle fashioned this name for himself. It's an anagram AND a play on words in French. He's scarily intelligent. (As Ollivander said, terrible and great.)

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Doesn't Kingsley Shacklebolt roll off the tongue nicely....just like Lupin
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Doesn't Kingsley Shacklebolt roll off the tongue nicely....just like Lupin
It sure does-I've always liked their names!
I've also always liked the name, Bellatrix.
My doggy's named Bella.....
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i like tonks, i thot that was an awesome anme and i also like ariana, and hermonie (even tho u said no main characters) and draco was a cool name to me...i just thot jk used a lot of interesting names and she did an excellent job with the books! (i also like voldemort!!!)
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