OOP: What do you make of this name?

rose_in_shadow rose_in_shadow at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 30 23:13:03 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 66226

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Rowan:
> 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?

Me:
Someone else on this list has mentioned that "Bellatrix" is also the 
name of a star and since she's a member of the Black family, perhaps 
it's a family thing? (i.e. Sirius  - the dog star)





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