[HPforGrownups] OOP: What do you make of this name?

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 66484


Monday, June 30, 2003, 3:29:21 PM, gailjr2001 wrote:

g> What does anyone make of Bellatrix Lestrange's name?  Bella I take to 
g> mean beautiful, and according to my dictionary, -trix is a suffix 
g> that denotes a female (eg. aviator, aviatrix), though she certainly 
g> has many tricks up her sleeve!

Bellatrix is another star, like Sirius and Regulus.  It's a blue
supergiant -- massive, bright, short-lived, and destined to become a
supernova.  And it's in the constellation of Orion, at his left
armpit.  (The more famous Betelgeuse is the other armpit.)

End of today's Astronomy lesson. :)

-- 
Dave