Sometimes things just have to smack me upside the head.......

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

"Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/39172>:

<< From a practical standpoint, it's possible that JKR decided to name Draco's blond, blue-eyed mother Narcissa before she decided to establish the star/constellation tradition for naming Black children (which, for all we know, may have started with Sirius). >>

Rowling said in an interview that she named Narcissa before she thought up the astronomical tradition. I already said I was willing to make excuses for Narcissa.

When you say 'started with Sirius', do you mean, she named him after the Dog Star right away, and years later named his other two first cousins Andromeda and Bellatrix? Named his mother Walburga before she named his father Orion? 

Because on <http://www.hplex.info/wizards/blackfamilytree.html>, she did put a Sirius in the first generation shown, sibling of non-astronomical Phineas Nigellus, and a Sirius apparently first son of Phineas Negellus and grandfather of Orion.

Non-astronomical males include Phineas Nigellus in the first row, his deleted apparently second son Phineas (why wasn't it his first son that he named after himself?) and the deleted 'Marius, a squib' in the third row. I don't know if Lycoris is supposed to be male or female or astronomical.

Rowling said in an interview that the Death Eaters used to be a group named the Knights of Walpurgis before LV got hold of them, perhaps Pollux and Irma named their little girl after the namesake of that anti-Muggle organization. In my fanfic, the Knights of Walpurgis were a less dishonorable anti-Muggle organization, one that started in the Middle Ages with the intention of protecting wizards and witches from Muggle persecutions by taking violent revenge on any Muggle who persecuted a witch or wizard, soon expanded to any convenient Muggle neighbor of a Muggle persecutor. They started and took their name from the Muggle murder of a Healer named Walburga who was so open-hearted that that she treated any Muggle who asked her as well as treating wizarding folk.

In my fanfic, Phineas Nigellus named his son Ciaran Cole, who married a witch named Stella Moon (a Moon was Sorted in PS/SS) and started the astronomical tradition with a daughter named Selene and sons named Saturnus and Scorpius. Saturnus's sons were Mimas and Enceladas. Scorpius's daughters were Zubenalgenubi and Zubeneschemali. Mimas and Enceladus were Sirius and Regulus's two grandfathers.