Severus

[June Ewing]

> Margie:
> The page about Snape on the Harry Potter Lexicon website
(http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/snape.html) says:
<snip>
*'Snape' meaning:* JKR says "Snape is an English village" <snip>
probably the one in North Yorkshire near Hadrian's (aka Severus')
Wall. <snip>

and if you go to the referred to page of JKR quotes
(http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/fall00-etoys.html),
it says:

*How do you come up with all the unique names, places, and things
that help make Harry Potter so intriguing?*
Many of the names are invented, for example "Quidditch" and
"Muggle." I also collect unusual names, and I take them from all
sorts of different places.  "Hedwig" was a saint, "Dumbledore" is
an old English word for "bumblebee," and "Snape" is the name of a
place in England. <snip>


June:
Thank you Margie, I knew I had read some where that the name
Snape had come from a place in England but could not remember
where I read it and didn't remember that it was actually JKR
who had said it. I was actually going to look for it yesterday
but was down by a bad headache (I get them some times because
of an accident I was in a couple of years ago) so instead I
went to bed quite early. Thank you again for doing this
research, I knew I wasn't crazy (not totally any way, lol).