Severus of Antioch

Dave Hardenbrook DaveH47 at mindspring.com
Thu Jul 18 05:58:50 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 41377

When we talk about Snape's first name, we have in the past usually
talked about that Roman Emperor, but apparently there is another
famous Severus -- Severus of Antioch, who in the sixth century
advanced the then heretical idea that all human souls contain
divinity, and that therefore even serfs and slaves had human rights.
Could Snape be some sort of modern counterpart to *this* Serverus,
somehow, as a modern "freedom-fighter" against the Voldemortian
view that human lives are meaningless?

Just a wild thought...

-- 
Dave





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