Fw: [HPFGU-OTChatter] The Other Severus

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 14986

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Doreen" <nera at r...> wrote:
> Doreen said:

> Last weekend, a print in the ladies room of a hotel caught my
> attention. The print was a pen-and-ink drawing of the Arch of
> Septimius Severus in Rome. Perhaps Rowling named Snape after this
> Severus? Could Snape be (somewhat) based upon the Historical 
Severus?
> If so, the next HP books will be VERY interesting indeed!
> 
> http://www.roman-empire.net/decline/sept-severus.html
> 

[Septimus] Severus was passionately addicted to the vain studies of 
magic and divination, deeply versed in the interpretation of dreams 
and omens, and perfectly acquainted with the science of judicial 
astronomy...........

               - Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chap. 6