Saint Leucius, Saint Peter and Saint Severus

[LadyOfThePensieve]

No: HPFGUIDX 115828


Hi,

personally I have no idea if it means something or not. But maybe you
can imagine how astonished I was when I read it for first time.

I don´t want to speculate about it, but it´s, well, interesting.

Greetings


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tookishgirl_111"
<tookishgirl_111 at y...> wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "onnanokata" <averyhaze at h...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > LadyOfThePensieve wrote:
> <snip>
> > 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?
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > 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!!
> > 
> <snip>
> 
> 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)