Sirius' name

[mlle_bienvenu]

No: HPFGUIDX 56495

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "s_shortsnout" 
<s_shortsnout at y...> wrote:
<snippy snip>
The more prominent of the two, Sirius A, is a white 
> star with a small oval orbit around Sirius B, "the pup", a black 
> dwarf that is undetectable to the human eye. So I guess Sirius's 
> name is actually derives from Sirius B, the Black Dwarf, or "the 
> Pup", which makes sense because his name is "Sirius Black" and his 
> animagus form makes him undetactable to the human eye.
> Like I said, I don't know if most of you knew this, but I thought 
it 
> interesting....I thought his name derived from "Sirius A", I had no 
> idea there was a Sirius B!  
> 
> "S Shortsnout"


Me: Oddly enough, Sirius Black can still be named after Sirius A.  It 
just so happens that the name 'black' can mean 'white'. How, you ask? 
Many times, the name Black is actually derived not from the english 
color word, but from 'blanc' which means 'white' in French. So it all 
depends on where the Black family originated...:)

Mlle Bienvenu