[HPforGrownups] Re: Severus

[June Ewing]

> Carol responds:
> I don't remember a Bagshot in the HP books. Can you refresh
my memory? (I do remember a Bagshot Row in the Tolkien books,
tied in with a lot of bag, sack, and cul de sac puns, including
the patrician/plebeian name Sackville-Baggins, but nothing of
> the sort in HP.) <snip>


June:
Bathilda Bagshot is the author of  "A History of Magic".
Professor Bathilda Bagshot (before 1881-December 1997) was a
magical historian and the author of A History of Magic. Her
book is used in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
class of the same name, taught by Professor Binns. She lived
in Godric's Hollow, and died in 1997, after which her corpse
was animated by Lord Voldemort to contain his magical familiar
Nagini. Bathilda was also the great-aunt of Gellert Grindelwald,
the infamous dark wizard who was defeated by Albus Dumbledore.
If you check her out online there is more about her.