Hey! In the post I made an hour ago with the lovely hi-res Snape, I just realized that we can decode another of the golden arches in Snape's office! In this previous discussion where we analyzed them ad nauseum, you will see that we could only read 'of gold' on this arch behind his potions mixing table (see the diagram in the post). In the new Snape pic , we can clearly see that the arch says carbuncle of gold From the definition of carbuncle , I think this aspect makes the most sense... read more
