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While "flight of death" is slightly nonsensical, "Flight from death" is just wrong, "Vol" can mean a flight in the sense of flying but not in the sense of fleeing.

Edit: I just realised you might have meant that translated literally it makes more sense in English.

Yes.

In the context of looking for Easter Eggs and hidden meanings in the Harry Potter books, "flight from death" makes more sense.

I don't actually know the proper usage of vol in French. My sister supplied that information and, obviously, she knows less French than I do. My example was just intended to illustrate that de can be translated as either from or of and sometimes which one you use completely changes the meaning in English and sometimes it doesn't.

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