NAMES (Severus)

[Aurora Mendelsohn]

No: HPFGUIDX 30244

Jen wrote:
> As well as being a name (of the emperor Septimius Severus), the word
> 'severus' is also just an adjective meaning 'strict, severe'; it is from
> the adjective, I am nearly certain, that the name derives.  A highly
> appropriate name for Snape, indeed.  
> 
> (The second e in 'severus' is long, and thus the accent falls on that
> syllable (seVErus), and the accentuation of the name should be the same
> in English.  It is pronounced that way by some, particularly us
> classicists, but the common method now shortens the e and puts the
> accent back on the first syllable: SEverus.)
> 
> --jen :)

It just occured to me that the name Severus might also have to do with the word sever, as
in to seperate. Snape is severed from the DEs and in some sense from the rest of the wizarding community
for being a DE. And all you Snape fans can think up how his heart is severed or her is severed from some love of his....

Aurora
(wondering if she will ever get caught up in reading this list after a few days away)