Re: Snape’s DE Past & HBP

[adragh]

No: HPFGUIDX 111512


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:

> Pippin:
> Trachtenberg, Joshua, *Jewish Magic and Superstition*, 
> University of Pennsylvania Press,  2004 p. 38
> [snip]

Excellent! Thank you. I found this to be fascinating reading! I 
concede the point.

> Pippin:
> To bring this back to the topic, it certainly sounds as if such a 
> creature could successfully pretend to be a witch  and have 
> children by a wizard. Granted this is all a lot more obscure and 
> foreign than Stoker's Dracula, but the folk elements in Dracula 
> were  also obscure and foreign to Britain  before Stoker 
> popularized them.

Very much so. 

> Pippin:
> JKR is not afraid of working obscure legends into her work: 
> she's obviously delved much deeper into the lore of alchemy, for 
> example,  than most of her readers ever will.
>
I think this is one of the characteristics of a good writer, that the 
writer researches backgrounds even if they don't get set into type.

Adragh