"Severus" trivia

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 83163



-In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meltowne" <meltowne at y...>  wrote:
SNIP> > > "So we have Severus Snape and Albus Dumbledore - who is 
Niger?"

--In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <
catlady at w...> wrote:
 "Sirius BLACK."


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ghinghapuss" <rredordead at a...> 
wrote:

"Or Bellatrix Black???"

----Now me: Predating these Blacks, is Phineas Nigellus.  (Nigellus, a funny 
little play on the words niger [latin for black, dark colored] and Aspergillus, of 
which, Aspergillus niger is the type species for this genus of mold.  Sorry, my 
microbiology lore crops up again.)

Arya