Isaac Newton - Shades of HP?.

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 150286

Actually the comparison between Newton and Snape has occurred to me
too, both were unpopular British teachers, both were interested in
alchemy, and both were extremely unpleasant people. As a boy Newton
fantasized about burning down his house with his mother and stepfather
still in it, and later in life when he was Master of the Mint he seems
to have enjoyed sending counterfeiters to the gallows. Newton was
selfish petty sarcastic and conceited, but then he had a lot to be
conceited about; Newton was quite possibly the greatest genius the
Human Race has ever produced, and he knew it. I don't know if Snape's
mental machinery is quite in that league but he's pretty damn smart.

Eggplant