Sirius' Name

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No: HPFGUIDX 75447

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Stacy Berinsky <sberinsky at y...> 
wrote:
> On a slightly different note on Sirius' name, I just made the 
connection between Sirius the character and Sirius the dog of greek 
mythology.  Which explains his animagus transformation.  I'm 
attempting to find a link between Harry and his Sirius, and the Greek 
Sirius and his masters, but so far it evades me.
>  
> Oh, and my apologies if this has already been brought up a thousand 
times and ripped apart, I'm rather new.
> 
> "Stacy Berinsky"

Actually, we find out in OoTP that most of his family had "star" 
names, but I always thought it rather delicious that a black dog 
animagus has the name of the Dog Star and the surname "Black". I am 
pretty sure this is deliberate, like many of the other names, such as 
Remus (as in Romulus's brother)Lupin ("wolf-like"). JKR has fun in a 
Dickens-like way with names. It's great, too - gets child readers to 
go look it up, I hope, and learn something new. (I'm a 
teacher-librarian and love being there to help them when they do!)

Su