[HPforGrownups] Re: WW name trends (was No more alphabet, please)

[Edblanning at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 37779

Dicentra:

> The ancients refer to Sirius as a "ruddy" colored star, leading some
> scientists to wonder if Sirius used to look red, which is why Sirius
> was also called "bloody."  Bloody Sirius. Dog Sirius. Freedom Sirius.
> That can't be a coincidence, can it, Jo?

IIRC, that's because Sirius used to have a companion star, a red giant , 
which has now collapsed. As you say, it isn't anymore. If anyone actually 
manages to *see* Sirius these days, throught the light pollution, it's almost 
blue, sparkling multicoloured (like a diamond in the sky, as the nursery 
rhyme has it).

I'm rather simplistic when it comes to these name things. Can't we just 
accept that Sirius Black = black dog, thus giving the alert reader the clue 
as to who the black dog Harry keeps seeing really is?

Eloise








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