OOP: What do you make of this name?

[Susan Smith]

No: HPFGUIDX 66215

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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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> Rowan

Bellatrix literally means "Warrioress" in Latin-which I think is more 
in keeping with her being V.'s beloved follower, and also a heavy in 
the coming war.  She is a LeStarnge by marriage-though strange does 
describe her behavior, personality, etc.

Atropos G.