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

Liz Sager ChaserChick at hotmail.com
Mon Jun 30 22:44:39 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 66211

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>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?

"The strange/foreign, beautiful, female warrior." Hm. Could Mrs. Lestrange 
be the true Mary Sue of the series? XD

I took the name a face value -- that at the star.

Liz

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