[HPforGrownups] Severus, Sever Us?

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On Monday, Jul 28, 2003, at 23:45 America/Indianapolis, Karen wrote:

> Okay, maybe this is farfetched, but when you look at the Sorting
> Hat's song in OoP, it predicts the end of Hogwarts if the houses do
> not unite to work together. We know that for the most part,
> Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Gryffindor get along pretty well, with
> only the normal amount of competition. Slytherin is the one group
> that does not seem to cooperate willingly with anyone else. I'm
> probably way off, here, but since JKR has used names frequently to
> define people, could she be suggesting that Severus Snape is a key
> to whether or not the houses can be united? Severus isn't exactly a
> common name, and it can all to easily be made into Sever us,
> or "divide us".

Funny, i'd always read the name as being based on the word "Severe", 
and it seems this never gets mentioned, lost among all the severing and 
the perseuses.

--Random832