Severus

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 190137

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Margaret Fenney <fenneyml at ...> wrote:

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" ([image: WEB LINK]
> eT <http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/fall00-etoys.html>), probably
> the one in North Yorkshire near Hadrian's (aka Severus') Wall. This village
> also has a '[image: WEB LINK]Snape
> Castle<http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/slhg/page2.phtml>.'
> There is another Snape Village that is near Saxmundham, northeast of Ipswich
> near the Alde River.

<snip>


Geoff;
I think I would disagree with with the Lexicon on this. If you speak to 
any UK resident who has some knowledge of English place names, unless
they happen to live in North Yorkshire, Snape  would immediately be 
connected to the one I already mentioned because of the world famous
Maltings centre and its connection to Benjamin Britten, the greatest English 
composer of the latter part of the 20th century.

I have to say that I am sometimes suspicious of the Lexicon because it is 
compiled by a non-British author. Another piece of information Margie 
quotes is the comment about the "other Snape" being in North Yorkshire 
near Hadrian's Wall.

The Snape involved is near Bedale, which is just west of the main A1 and 
is indeed in North Yorkshire. However, Hadrian's Wall is north of Newcastle
-on-Tyne and well into Northumberland, its nearest point to Snape being 
probably sixty miles! As a result, I am do not feel overwhelmed by the 
accuracy of the jnformation.
:-(

Margie:
> and if you go to the referred to page of JKR quotes 
 "Dumbledore" is an old English word for "bumblebee,"

Geoff:
In Porlock, a village in west Somerset, where I lived for over 10 years until 
2010, there is a house called "Dumbledory" which was connected with the 
village beekeeper.

As I said previously, I am highly amused by the many names which are plays 
on words.