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BlackHound said:
He was born in Manchester, so, yeah, he's British. Americans like to say our country is the "great melting pot", but Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales are far more mixed culturally and ethnically than the United States is.
The given name of Severus is of Roman origin; several politicians had the name, such as:
Marcus Didius Severus Julianus Augustus
Lucius Septimius Severus (my personal favorite)
Marcus Aurelius Severus Antonius Pius Augustus (also known as Caracalla)
Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus Pius Felix
Severus Alexander
Flavius Valerius Severus Augustus
Libius Severus Augustus
Out of all of them, only Lucius Septimus Severus died of natural causes; all the rest were murdered or executed.
Britian was part of the Roman Empire; could this signify our heroic and long-suffering Potions Master is of Roman descent? His father's name, Tobias, is a Greek version of the Hebrew name Toviyah, which means, ironically, Yahweh is good. Many surnames began as the name of the place where the family lived; Snape figures in the name of several locations all over England, and his father's family could have come from any of them.
His mother, Eileen Prince, was described as looking just like him, with black hair and dark eyes. Eileen is a common name in the Isles, it is the anglicised version of Irish Eibhlín, which is in turn a form of the older Irish Gaelic Aibhilín. The surname Prince could have come from anywhere, really, France, Germany, Spain, the Isles themselves, even the Netherlands (I myself have the surname Prins in my Dutch family).
You really can't judge a person's nationality just by the color of their hair and eyes.
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