OOP: What do you make of this name?

J jdq53562 at aol.com
Mon Jun 30 22:47:29 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 66213

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Liz Sager" <ChaserChick at h...> 
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> >What does anyone make of Bellatrix Lestrange's name?  Bella I take 
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> >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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> "The strange/foreign, beautiful, female warrior." Hm. Could Mrs. 
Lestrange 
> be the true Mary Sue of the series? XD
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> I took the name a face value -- that at the star.
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> Liz
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The names Sirius, Bellatrix, Nymphadora (Tonks), etc are all 
constellations or celestial names.  Must be a Family thing.  

Arya





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