"The Animagus Black!"

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 80015

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Johnson Family" 
<tkj_etal at b...> wrote:

> All right--it's possible that Bellatrix calls him the Animagus 
Black because that's what LV calls him. The question is, why 
would he? <

Because both "Sirius" and "Black" are ambiguous. If you heard 
someone shout "I was fighting Sirius Black!" you might think,  
"serious black what?"  One of the reasons for  military jargon is  
to avoid problems like that. 

There is a story that  the British term "air screw"  was dropped in 
favor of the American term "propeller" when an order was 
misunderstood and several air crew turned up instead of the 
propellers that had been requested. 

Pippin