What in Snape's name? WAS: Re: Prophecy/ Wizarding&MugglePlaces - FlyingFordAnglia - Funeral/ Snape/ Sirius

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No: HPFGUIDX 135632

Catlady wrote:

> Yes, but 'sneap' is 'rebuke':
> http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?WORD=sneap
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Snape's name has interesting resonances too: "snip" (as in "snippy")
and "snap" (as in "snappish"), as well as "snipe", which he does at
his students all the time; also "snake", which suggests the qualities
of subtlety and coldness (and poison--no accident that he's the
Potions Master), and shich ties into the whole Slytherin connection.

(Apologies if I'm reinventing the wheel. I searched but did not find.)

--Gatta