Strictly Latin: Perseus Evans and the rest of them!

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 69413

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy" <xpectopatronum at y...> 
wrote:
> 5) 'Phineas Nigellus' (my second favourite HP character, my 
favourite
> is Snape). This was a difficult one as 'Phineas' is not a Latin 
word,
>

PHINEAS means "mouth of the serpent" in Hebrew (I believe I'll check 
that and retract if I have to--the meaning I'm SURE about, it's the 
hebrew I'm fuzzy on)
NIGELLUS of course refers to "Black"

SNAPE is a town, rather towns in Britain. Just sounds snarky, I guess.

Melpomene