But this house regarded him as a great, stone god might have done. It gave no sign. After a little wait, the man screamed more invitations, mixing them with wonderful curses.
Desiring to have his reasons for liking him, I could only gather the sentences--" I known't: he pays dad back what he gies to me--he curses daddy for cursing me. He says I mun do as I will."
Despite the curses that plagued him, Pelops became a great king of much of the Southern Greek Peninsula that still bears his name — the Peloponnese, meaning the " island of Pelops" .
Mr. Weasley was a fully qualified wizard who worked in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office at the Ministry of Magic, but he didn't have any particular expertise in the matter of curses, as far as Harry knew.
That was the feeling we all had because it was a terrible century, a century that had so many maledictions and so many curses, almost unparalleled in history.