Transcript Onomastic Tropes in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows By Don L.

Onomastic Tropes in
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
By Don L. F. Nilsen
and Alleen Pace Nilsen
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Part One: Surface-Structure
Schemes
See Companion PowerPoint
Alliteration
Assonance
Cacophony
Deconstruction
Ethnicity
Euphony
Poetic Scansion
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Part Two: Deep-Structure Tropes
This PowerPoint
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Aptness
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Irony
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Metaphor
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Metonymy
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Synecdoche
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APTNESS—GOOD GUYS:
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Crookshanks: Cat with crooked legs
Albus Dumbledore: White
Argus Filch: Security Person (cf Argus Camera and Argus Peacock)
from Greek Argus, a creature with a thousand eyes)
Filius Flitwick (Small Charms Professor)
Rubeus Hagrid: Blushes Easily (Red Faced)
Neville Longbottom
Maxime Olympe: Giant (Maximum + Mt. Olympus)
Peeves: Poltergeist
Lily Potter: (lilies symbolize purity)
Pomona Sprout: (Pomona is the goddess of agriculture) Teaches
Biology
Arthur Weasley: Has a Weasel Patronus and Lives in the Burrow
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APTNESS—BAD GUYS:
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Aragog: Giant Spider (cf. “arachnid” and “Gog and Magog”)
Phineas Nigellus Black: Bad Guy Portrait
Fenrir Greyback: Werewolf
Griphook the Goblin: Holds onto treasures at Gringotts Bank
Draco Malfoy: Dragon, “malfoy” means bad faith
Narcissa Malfoy: Egocentric, from the egocentric Narcissus
The Inferi: Dead People in a Lake: They are “below”
Rufus Scrimgeour: The Minister of Magic, in theatre, a scrim partially
obscures things
Dolores Umbridge: Senior Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic and
Hogwarts Professor. “Dolores” means sadnesses, and umbridge
relates to shade, and shadow, cf. umbrella
Lord Voldemort: Flight from Death
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APTNESS—OTHER TYPES:
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Professor Binn: Teaches History of Magic (what has been)
Dobby and Kreacher: Dobby is a house elf who daubs up messes, and
Kreacher is a creature
Professor Flitwick: Teaches Charms
Professor Sprout: Teaches Herbology
The Thief’s Downfall (Waterfall in Gringotts Bank that washes away all
charms and enchantments)
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APTNESS—CHARMS AND SPELLS:
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Accio! L: ascendere (ascend)
Aguamenti! L: aqua (water)
Apparate! L: apparere (to appear)
Confringo! L: confringo (to break to pieces)
Crucio! L: crux (cross)
Defodio! L: defodio (to dig down)
Deprimo! L: deprimo (To press or sink down)
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Descendo! L: descendere (to descend)
Diffindo! L: diffindo (to split or cleave)
Disappare! L: apparere (to appear)
Duro! (Turns something to stone—makes it “durable”) L: durus
(hard)
Erecto! L: erectus (erect)
Expecto Patronum! L: exspectare (to expect), L: patronus
(protector) from L: pater (father)
Expelliarmus! (Expels the Arms of an opponent) L: expellere (to
drive out)
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Expulso! L: expulsare (to drive out)
Fidelio! L: fedelis (faithful)
Finite Incatatem: L: finitus (finished) L: incanto, incantare (to
enchant)
Flagrante Curse: (Makes Fire) L: flagrantia (burning, blazing)
Gemino! (To Make Things Double or Multiple) L: gemellus (twin or
double, cf. Gemeni—Castor and Pollox, the twins)
Glisseo! (Slide)(cf. “Glissando” on a piano—sliding, cf. “glacier”)
I: glissando (slipping)
Homenum Revelio: (Reveals any People in the Room) L: homo
(human) L: revelo (reveal)
Impedimenta! L impedimentum (impediment)
Imperio! L: imperium (command or order)
Levicorpus! L: levis (light, not heavy, cf. “levitate” and “levity”) L:
corpus (body)
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Liberacorpus! L: libera (free) L: corpus (body)
Lumus! (For Light) L: lumen (light)
Nox! (Night or Darkness) L: nox (night)
Obliviate! (To Obliterate Someone’s Memory) L obliviosus
(forgetful, oblivious)
Obscuro! L: obscuro (obscure)
Occlumency: (Occludes Harry’s mind from Voldemort’s thoughts)
L: occludo (to shut up) L: mens (mind)
Petrificus Totalus! (To Petrify Someone) L: petra (stone or rock) L:
totus (complete or entire)
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Priori Incantatem! L: prior (former or prior) L: incanto
(enchantment)
Protego (Totalum)! (For Protection, cf. Protegé) L: protego (to
cover or protect) L: totus (complete or entire)
Reducio! L: reducere (to draw backwards)
Reparo! L: reparare (to repair)
Repello Muggletum! L: repellere (to repel)
Salvio Hexia! L: salveo (safe or in good health, cf. “salvation”)
Sectum Sempra: (Snape’s Curse) L: sectura (cutting) L: semper
(always)
Stupefy! L: stupor (stupefaction)
Tergeo! L tergeo (to wipe, scour, dry off, clean)
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IN MEDIAS RES:
• All Names which are
Apt or Ironically Apt
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IRONY:
• Lavender Brown: Oxymoron
• Regulus Arcturus Black: Good Guy
• Sirius Black: Good Guy
• Amicus Carrow: Death Eater
• The Daily Prophet
• The Dementor’s Kiss
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• Lucius Malfoy: Bad Guy (c.f. Lucifer)
• Norbert (the Norwegian Ridgeback Dragon): The
name changes to Norberta when it is discovered
that she is very violent and therefore female
• Kingsley Shacklebolt: Oxymoron: “Kingsley” is
opposite in connotation to “shackle” or “bolt”
• Pius Thicknesse: Minister of Magic (is not pious,
but he is “thick”—stupid)
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• Nymphadora/Dora Tonks: Good Guy
• Xenophilius Lovegood: ct. Xenophobia (Luna Lovegood’s
Father)
• ALL WEASLEYS ARE PURE-BLOODS, BUT HAVE MUGGLESOUNDING NAMES: Arthur, Molly, Fred, Percy, George, Bill,
Ron and Ginny
• Whomping Willow Tree (cf. Weeping Willow Tree)
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Metaphor:
•Bathilda Bagshot
is as nutty as
squirrel poo.
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Parody:
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Riddle:
• Q: Which came first the
Phoenix or the flame?
• A: A circle has neither a
beginning nor an end.
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SYNECDOCHE and
VISUAL IMAGERY:
• Fang: Hagrid’s Dog
• Extendable Ears
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CONCLUSION
THE TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE:
• “Neither can live while the other survives.”
• HARRY: “I live…while he lives? But I thought… I
thought it was the other way round! I thought we
both had to die? Or is that the same thing?”
• ALBUS: “You were the seventh Horcrux, Harry, the
Horcrux he never meant to make.” (709)
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Harry Potter Web Sites
*HARRY POTTER LEXICON:
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/
*HOW HARRY POTTER SHOULD HAVE ENDED:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYWT5Q_R_w
*INFORMATION FOR MUGGLES:
www.Mugglenet.com
*J. K. ROWLING:
http://www.jkrowling.com/
*TERMINUS:
www.terminus2008.org
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