WW name trends (was No more alphabet, please)

[dicentra63]

No: HPFGUIDX 37816

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Edblanning at a... wrote:
> 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?
> 

Well, yes.  That would be the most logical reason.  And if you ask JKR
why the name Sirius, I don't think she'd go any farther than your
explanation.  But...

::draws herself up, lower lip trembling::

...I was trained in Literary Theory, and it is therefore my sworn duty
to wrest the text from the author's control and squeeze any and all
Meaning out of the text, no matter how distorted or far-fetched or
cock-eyed it may be. 

::sniff::

And besides, it's more fun this way.

--Dicentra, whose fun threshold is dangerously low