OOP: What do you make of this name?

[xlysanderx]

No: HPFGUIDX 66390

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> > Rowan:
> > > What does anyone make of Bellatrix Lestrange's name?  Bella I 
> take to mean beautiful, and according to my dictionary, -trix is a 
> suffix that denotes a female (eg. aviator, aviatrix), though she 
> certainly has many tricks up her sleeve!  I take Lestrange to mean 
> "the strange, or the foreign".  Anyone else? > >
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> "rose_in_shadow" wrote:
> > Someone else on this list has mentioned that "Bellatrix" is also 
> the name of a star and since she's a member of the Black family, 
> perhaps it's a family thing? (i.e. Sirius  - the dog star) >>>>>
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> Here's a nice site about stars and constellations:
> http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/
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> Regulus is also a star.  Andromeda is a galaxy of course.  I don't 
> see Narcissa, but her son Draco is also a constellation.   
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> I think you're right -- it's definitely a Black family tradition.
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> And Sirius is the brightest star in our sky, after the sun.  

Bellatrix means warrioress.
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> ---  Logic Alley -------