Felix Felicis

Lalaith_Elf · 11-09-2004, 01:56 PM

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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Telcontar_Dunedain · 11-09-2004, 02:02 PM

Maybe he's the new DADA teacher, or maybe a protection spell. More advanced that 'Protego'?

sirigorn · 11-09-2004, 02:46 PM

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.

Telcontar_Dunedain · 11-09-2004, 04:13 PM

Well the Latin meaning kind of make me think protection, but I don't know?

sun-star · 11-09-2004, 06:58 PM

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.

**Nurvingiel** · 11-09-2004, 07:02 PM

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

Forkbeard · 11-11-2004, 02:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

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

Felix is the nominative form, felicis is the genitive; so something like Happy of the happy (or lucky, or fortunate, successful etc)...it does sound like a charm though rather than a character. Most of Rowlings names do mean something, but most are not Latinate....Severus Snape...for example. Severus is, but Snape isn't.

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Minielin · 01-02-2005, 05:51 AM

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.

11-09-2004, 01:56 PM	#1
Lalaith_Elf Her Infernal Majesty Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,188	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. ) __________________ "It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo

11-09-2004, 02:02 PM	#2
Telcontar_Dunedain Warrior of the House of Hador Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 4,651	Maybe he's the new DADA teacher, or maybe a protection spell. More advanced that 'Protego'? __________________ 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, 02:46 PM	#3
sirigorn Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: who wants to know? looks around suspiciously Posts: 497	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. __________________ Gimli: It was already dead Legolas: It was twitching! Gimli: It was twitching...because it's got my axe embeded in it's nervous system!! -Two Towers extended DVD I'm wearing black for Black. Well, then, I confess, it is my intention to commandeer one of these ships, pick up a crew in Tortuga, raid, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out!~Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

11-09-2004, 04:13 PM	#4
Telcontar_Dunedain Warrior of the House of Hador Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 4,651	Well the Latin meaning kind of make me think protection, but I don't know? __________________ 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
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	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. __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

01-02-2005, 05:51 AM	#8
Minielin Elven Warrior Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: I dwell in possibility. Posts: 247	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. __________________ "...then how shall I Revive the dying tones of minstrelsy, Which linger yet about lone gothic arches, In dark green ivy, and among wild larches?" Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum.

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