[HPforGrownups] Re: Strictly Latin: Perseus Evans and the rest of them!

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No: HPFGUIDX 69571


On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 10:50 AM, melclaros wrote:

> --- 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)

Could Phineas be a parselmouth? I believe book 2 says that LV was the 
first since Salazar Slytherin, but i'm not sure about that
--Random832