Re: Great minds and such...
My King's Arms is a real place that actually gave me the bunny for the story so I kept the setting there -- I'd been to Shepton Mallet with my family and a lot of things in its history (prison, mill town, Septimus Severus) made me think of Snape, and then I had the whole sketchy backstory with Teddy and James that just seemed to fit. I had no idea the name implied sleaze!
No worries re: RL, I have been home with a horrible case of the flu which is the only reason I've been able to keep up with reading!