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"Harry, your eyesight really is awful."
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Ella Black (née Max) was a pure-blood witch who married the pure-blood wizard Cygnus Black (I), one of the early members of the House of Black.
Etymology[]
- Ella derives from the Old German 'Alia', meaning "all", and is also used as a short form of the names Gabriella, Isabella, and Elizabeth.
- Max is a short form of a name Maximilian. The name means "greatest".
- Therefore Ella Max can be translated as "the greatest of all".
Behind the scenes[]
- This character's name appears only on the version of the Black Family Tapestry shown in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. She was not included on the version of the tree which J. K. Rowling gave to a charity auction in 2006.[4] However, according to director David Yates, Rowling provided the filmmakers with a copy of the Black family tree going back eight generations.[5] The filmmakers presumably received a more complete version of the tree than the one auctioned off, which only goes back six generations.
- The names Ella, Ella-, -ella and -ella- appears many times in the Black family:
- Ella Black née Max
- Elladora Black
- Cedrella Weasley née Black
- Druella Black née Rosier
- Bellatrix Lestrange née Black
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Appears on Black family tapestry)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Her husband died this year, so she had to be born before then.
- ↑ Sirius stated in 1995 that all of the Blacks were deceased, thus Ella was probably dead by then.
- ↑ It is a safe assumption that Ella was pure-blood given that Cygnus I was not blasted off the tree.
- ↑ "Black Family Tree" on The Harry Potter Lexicon
- ↑ "'Empire' Magazine Feature on OotP" from The Leaky Cauldron