Mrs. Black's House

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No: HPFGUIDX 79094

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sylviablundell2001" 
<sylviablundell at a...> wrote:
> I think Mrs. Black must be a Black by birth as well as by 
marriage.  
> The probability is that she married a cousin, which is likely 
quite 
> common among pure-blood families.  This would enable her to talk 
> proprietorially about the Noble House of Black if she actually was 
> born into it, rather than married into it.
> Sylvia (prepared to be proved completely wrong)

That probability is pretty high, I'd say.  Have you read any Anne 
Rice?  The Mayfair Witches were notorious for this, and prefered to 
keep the leniage <sp?> in the family, so to speak.  So it would not 
be a stretch for a family bent on remaining the purest of pure 
bloods to marry with in their own bloodlines. 

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