Snobby Snape?

[pippin_999]

> Mike:.
> 
> What do you think Severus was referring to with his "brawny" remark?
>  

Pippin:
He was serving notice that he recognized that Sirius and James could 
probably beat him up, but he was telling them (and Lily) that
they weren't going to be able to outsmart him.

> Mike, wondering if Pippin adopted her nomme de guerre from that "Fool 
> of a Took", the Retriever that fell prey to Bruce in Jaws, or if she 
> simply wears knee-high hosiery? <bg>

Pippin:
"I am a Halfling --hard, bold and wicked." -- but as Pippin went on to 
say, you shouldn't believe everything that strangers say of themselves <g>