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[Facts] Marvolo
A friend of mine would like to know the meaning of the name Marvolo. I did a quick search, and I see it's Harry Potter related (as you can tell, I'm clueless about all of that).

-Lissa Hannah-
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I did a quick search too, and here's what I came up with.Etymologically speaking, I think Marvolo may be related to Malvolio, Italian for "ill will".However, it may be simply a name needed to make Tom Marvolo Riddle an anagram of I Am Lord Voldemort. (Voldemort probably means "flight of death" in French, from the phrase vol de mort; it's properly pr. VOL-duh-mor as per J.K. Rowling, but is pr. VOL-de-mort in the movies.)However, in the book, Riddle's was named Tom after his his maternal grandfather and Marvolo after his maternal great-grandfather.You do not want to name your kid Marvolo, however. Tom Marvolo Riddle grew up to be Voldemort, the Adolf Hitler-like main villain in Harry Potter.See more at the Harry Potter Lexicon: http://snipurl.com/fz8v.
Miranda
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Thanks...Thanks for the info - I'll let her know. I think she's trying to figure things out for the future books, based upon names and whatnot in the previous books. I have no idea, really. LOL.
-Lissa Hannah-
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