Comment on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 25, chapter 96

Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:02:35 GMT

It's a fairly literal translation. I think the most likely option is that the Potter motto was first taken from the Bible in Latin, and at some point after the completion of the King James Bible (in the 1600s) the motto was updated to English.

The Peverells were, after all, contemporaries of Godric Gryffindor (at least in the HPMoR universe), so they would've been all over the Latin mottoes.

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