Some discrepancies

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 86497

Sylvia wrote:
> Sorry, Carol - can't produce any unshakeable canon for my view that 
> Mrs. Black married a cousin.  It is mainly a gut feeling about the 
> way she refers always to "my" house, rather than "our".  You would 
> expect "Sirius, you swine, you have brought disgrace upon your 
> father's house".  On the other hand. given the form her madness 
seems 
> to take, you may well be right in thinking that she has become so 
> totally obsessed with the purity of the House of Black that she has 
> come to believe it really is hers by right of blood.  I am not a 
> siriophile, but I do wonder whence he inherited his basic decency, 
> given that his father was probably just as awful as his mother, 
just less vocal.


Mandy here:
I also think it highly probable that Mrs. Black married her cousin 
but being married myself (not to my cousin I might add. ;-)) I do 
know that although it took a number of years did I begin, eventually, 
to refer to my husbands family as mine, or 'ours'.  I don't use his 
name, instead I kept mine and us the title Ms. but it is just a 
natural state of being when you share a life with another to adopt 
another's families.  Perhaps you know this as you may be married 
yourself but I just wanted to add my two cents worth. 

Also if Mrs. Black came from a less distinguished family she might be 
more than willing to adopt her husband's family as hers.

Where does Sirius' good seed come from?  I would guess his father's 
side of the family just because the other good seed, Andromeda, was a 
Black, so she was a cousin from Sirius' dad's side of the family.  I 
don't know where Sirius' uncle who supported him financially in 
London sits on the family tree though. 

Mandy