[HPforGrownups] Re: Prof. Sprout's First Name & Salazar

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 37131

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  From: nyarth_meow 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 8:00 PM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Prof. Sprout's First Name & Salazar

  Which reminds me, I was wondering where Salazar Slytherin's name 
  originates.  I know Slytherin is what a snake does, but does Salazar 
  have any connotations, or did JKR make it up?

  -Nyarth
This excerpt is taken from "What's in a Name!" http://www.theninemuses.net/hp/

"Antonio Salazar was the fascist dictator of Portugal for 36 years until his death in 1968. Though never officially an ethnic cleanser, he was a colonialist, who ruthlessly put down ethnic uprisings his his country's colonies in Africa. His name is perhaps used as a reference to the dictators past, such as Hitler, who believed in ethnic purity, just as Slytherin did. (Taken directly from Encyclopedia Potterica) "

Alina of Distant Place
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