Snape Poisoning the Longbottoms? Was: Is Agnes Snape's Mother?

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Iggy McSnurd wrote:
>>BTW: I don't know if it's been mentioned or not, but there is a
significance of the name Burke in "Borgan and Burkes." A long time 
ago, medical universities in England offered cash for corpses... a 
decent amount for the time, in fact... and they weren't all that 
careful to check where they came from. The better the condition of 
the corpses, the better the pay, since they were used for medical 
studies. Robert Burke was a man who actually earned his living by 
murdering people, and selling the bodies to medical schools. He 
refined a special technique of his own for killing people, that they 
named it after him..."Burking." (It's a method of suffocation...)
<<

Thanks for sharing that.  Once again, JKR certainly does her research 
well in naming her characters...and then adds her own unique wit:

I suspect it's no accident that "Borgin and Burkes" sounds 
suspiciously like something along the lines of "Bargain Books" (or 
whatever).

BM