Albus, Remus, Rebeus, Severus

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 24082

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Mindy, a.k.a. CLH" <mindyatime at j...> 
wrote:
> It seems to me that the 'us' at the end of each of the wizard's 
> name seem to originate from a certain nationality -- I don't know
> if Greek or Italian or Latin or whatever -- but is there a specific
> reason to this?

It's Latin. Like the magic words for most of the Charms are 
based on Latin. JKR has told interviewers that she just 
thought it was cute for the wizards to still have Latin as 
a living language, but I think it has to do with giving people old 
Latin names used to be a think that snobby people did.