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She also understands the importance of evil, both metaphysical (Voldemort), and human: Petunia and Vernon Dursley, the Muggle aunt and uncle who raise Harry in his orphanhood, along with their doted-on, sublimely piggish son Dudley, are grotesques worthy of Roald Dahl; Draco Malfoy, Harry's nemesis at Hogwarts, and Severus Snape (she's terrific with names), the diabolical potions teacher, are brilliant foils for Harry's flawed, instinctual goodness.
Countless Renaissance and Baroque sculptors have drawn inspiration from the friezes on the triple Arch of Septimius Severus (honoring a third-century emperor who died in York, England, the northernmost boundary of the empire).
It tried to regain its independence from Rome, but proved too small and weak, and was conquered by Emperor Septimius Severus in a.d. 196.
The NYT notes that Ruff worked in references to peace in the Middle East and that Henry Hyde dipped into Henry V's Agincourt speech, as well as quotations from de Gaulle, Septimius Severus, Horace Mann, Edward Gibbon and Saul Bellow.