Mrs. Black's House

[vecseytj]

No: HPFGUIDX 79110

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "severusbook4"
<severusbook4 at y...> wrote:
> --- 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. 
> 
> Severus

Hi~  And it is not just Mayfair witches, think FDR and his wife Ellie,
she was a Roosevelt, from birth.  The joke when they got married was
that she wouldn't even have to change her initals on her luggage. (She
had a lot of $$ too.. it helps keeping it *all* in the family... ya
get to keep it).  

I think that is the premis behind Siris' mother's house.  It was hers
handed down to her by her family, then she married S's father... His
name was Black... too.. gosh he was most likely her first cousin. Not
to sound too gross, but in ancient times marring you brother (usually
different mothers) was the way to keep the faimly pure.  Cleopatra was
married to her little  brother (yes they had kids) :\ (ick)  But,
maybe that's why the family is so nuts.  Oh well, just a thought.

Tj