Kinds of snake as names for Snape

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 144040

Mateo:
Thanx a lot Geoff!! Anyway, I wanna answer to another person who 
wrote about my message: yes, Piton is the Italian translation of 
Snape and the concept is the one you wrote!! If you like to know 
something else about the Italian versions, I'm here.


Bruce:
Is a 'piton' what we in English call a python, a large snake that kills its
victims by crushing and smothering them in its coils, as opposed to biting them
with poisonous fangs?  I wonder if this is significant?  I would have thought
that as a Potions teacher 'vipra' or 'aspa' would be a better name, as those are
names for poisonous snakes.

Bruce