The ancient forebears of the wizards, thousands of years earlier, had told the Source of Magic to only levitate things if you said...
‘Wingardium Leviosa.’
Harry slumped over at the breakfast table, resting his forehead wearily on his right hand.
I always read this as just a punchline about how incredibly silly sounding it was, and his despair at the idea of that being ingrained in the fabric of the universe, not him noticing a timeline issue.
In universe you could possibly explain Latin and other later languages as being influenced by the language of spells, rather than the other way round
I always read this as just a punchline about how incredibly silly sounding it was, and his despair at the idea of that being ingrained in the fabric of the universe, not him noticing a timeline issue.
In universe you could possibly explain Latin and other later languages as being influenced by the language of spells, rather than the other way round