Lestrange (was:Re: The Lestrange's/Crouch Trial and Lexicon)

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 90143

> I believe we don't know for certain that Bella, or any of the Black 
> sisters, were in Slytherin.  Although it is an educated guess that 
> Bellatrix was.  We also don't know that the Lestrange brothers went 
> to Hogwarts do we?  They sound French to me and I would think that 
> Beauxbatons would be a better guess for their place of education. 

I know this point has been answered already, but I just wanted to go off at a 
tangent about names.

The best known Mrs Lestrange in literature is (or at least was!) a character 
in Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage'. Thie murder victim in this book 
was one *Lucius* Prothero. Perhaps coincidence. Perhaps a suggestion of JKR's 
recreational reading. In either case, both names with a British literary 
precedent.

Malfoy itself, of course, is also a name of French origin. There may be some 
hint of JKR wishing to give a feeling of very old aristocratic names (dating 
back to the time of the Conquest) to some of her pureblood families.

~Eloise


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