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

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No: HPFGUIDX 90165

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, eloiseherisson at a... wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

There's been mention previously that JKR is a sort-of fan of our Aggie.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that she's not using the same standards
of plot resolution that La Christie is infamous for. (She cheats, you know.
Clues not made available to the reader suddenly appear in the final exposition.)

At  least Dumbledore doesn't seem to be Belgian, though Sybill as Miss Marple
would be a  turn up for the books....

Kneasy