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
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?
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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