OOP: What do you make of this name?
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Mon Jun 30 22:47:29 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 66213
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Liz Sager" <ChaserChick at h...>
wrote:
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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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