Who is Perseus Evans?

[dublinaaireland]

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Mags -
Can anyone PLEASE inform me as to who this is? Maybe I missed 
something, but it seems like everyone knows who he is and is linking 
him to Snape. A little help here would be greatly appreciated!

Kathryn Cawte -
Someone asked (and answered) this on another thread only a couple of 
days ago (but with so much going on I huess you missed it). It's an 
anagram of Severus Snape.


Dublina Replies -
Was very intrigued about the anagram and did a bit of research on the 
name Perseus.  I found this:

Perseus is the son of Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, and a mortal 
woman. 

<<I found this bit interesting if we consider the Greek God to be a 
Wizard and the mortal woman to be a Muggle ie Tom Riddle.  Could 
Snape be Tom?>>

The woman's husband, Polydectes, king of Seriphos, was naturally 
angry, but when your wife has an affair with a god, what can you do?

<<Are we to assume that the pensive scene re. the woman cowering in 
the corner to be Snape's mother.  Even though I agree with some that 
state there is no mentioning of *names*??>>

So, instead, when Perseus grew up Polydectes sent him on what he 
believed was an impossible quest. 

<<Death Eater for Voldy or Spy for Ddore?>>

The king sent his step-son out to kill Medusa, one of three sisters 
called the Gorgons who were so ugly, anyone who looked at them would 
turn to stone. 

<<Ok, so I dont think the characters are 'ugly'(well, maybe one), but 
there is theory floating around re. Lilly, Petunia and Narcissa are 
sisters??>>

He appealed to the gods for help and was given a mirrored shield by 
Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and a pair of winged sandals by Hermes 
(also know as Mercury), the messenger of the gods. Perseus flew using 
the sandals to find Medusa. When he found her, he did not look at 
her. Instead, he used the reflection in the shield to guide his sword 
so he could behead her as she slept. As she died, the white, winged 
horse Pegasus sprang from her neck. 

<<Gawd only knows, but there is another theory floating around that 
it was Snape that warned Lilly and not James the night of her death>>

On his way back from his victory against the Gorgons, Perseus came 
across a woman chained to a rock, waiting to be sacrificed to a sea 
monster, called either Cetus or Draco, 

<<The mention of Draco floored me, wasn't expecting that>>

depending on which version of the myth you believe. This woman was 
Andromeda, the Princess. 

<<The mention of Andromeda doubly floored me>>

Her mother, Cassiopeia boasted that she and her daughter were more 
beautiful than the Nereids (or sea nymphs), 

<<Nymphadora Tonks?>>

which were the daughters of Poseidon (or Neptune), the god of the 
sea. Angered by the insult to his daughters, Poseidon sent floods to 
the lands ruled by Cassiopeia and her husband, King Cepheus. Cepheus 
consulted an oracle who told him that the only way to quell 
Poseidon's anger was to sacrifice his daughter.

<<??? - any theories - ???>>

Luckily, Perseus came on the scene just in the nick of time and 
killed the sea monster and saved the princess. As a small side note, 
it is interesting that Cepheus shows up again in Greek mythology when 
he and 17 of his sons were killed by Hercules 


Check out the site address at:
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/extra/PerseusStory.htm
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Again, thinking (waaayyyy) out loud and still havent finished the 5th 
book yet, so some 'theories' could be a little 'muggled'....

D