Saint Leucius, Saint Peter and Saint Severus

[tookishgirl_111]

No: HPFGUIDX 115799


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "onnanokata" <averyhaze at h...> 
wrote:
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> LadyOfThePensieve wrote:
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> The 3 saints Saint Leucius, Saint Peter and Saint Severus.
>  
> They all died in 309 AD in Egypt as martyrians.
> Well. Does these names sound familiar to you?

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> Dharma replies:
> 
> Thanks for posting this information!  My first thought is the 
> obvious, given this context.  Lucius, Peter and Snape are going to 
> all be dead at the hands Death Eaters or Voldemort by the time book 
> 7 comes to an end.  Much wild speculation comes to mind in thinking 
> about how they might die!!
> 
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Tooks:
That is a fastinating thought...one I could see occuring.  The only 
one I doubt is Lucius being named after Saint Leucius, he really 
doesn't come across as a saint or one to redeem.  It's more likely, 
IMHO, that he was named after the character of the same name in 
William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus - a throughly nasty man who 
attempts to bring about the destruction of King Titus by hurting 
and/or causing the deaths of all those close to the king.  (Pardon me 
for not going into the plot, I haven't read the play, just heard of 
the Lucius character.) - I know JKR named Hermione after a character 
from A Winter's Tale by Shakespeare, so it's possible she did it more 
than once.

Tooks - Lucius fan, who prefers him evil (ever so evil)