Rabastan - name meaning

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 85820

Steve wrote:

> The name is Rabastan, as many of you have pointed out. I fixed the 
> typo on the Azkaban page. 
> 
><snip>
> 
> The site I find most credible on matters like this is the Akashic 
> Record. They list Rabastan as:
> 
> 'Probable corruption of Rastaban, a star whose name means "head of 
> the snake".' 
> 
> That sounds right to me. First of all, so many of the people in the 
> Black family have names from stars. Second, that particular star 
> seems to fit a scummy Death Eater, just like Sirius fits Sirius, the 
> dog animagus. <snip>
> Steve Vander Ark
> The Harry Potter Lexicon


Except for one small problem: Unlike Draco, whose mother was a Black
and therefore fits the Black family pattern of having been named after
a constellation even though his surname is Malfoy, Rabastan is the
brother-in-law of a Black, but that's his closest connection. His
brother Rodolphus married Bellatrix Black. Their mother, as far as we
know, wasn't a Black--at least she doesn't seem to have appeared on
the chart--so possibly the Lestranges are a French line of the pure
bloods. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that there's
no star or constellation called Rodolphus.

Carol