OoP_Black's Family Motto

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No: HPFGUIDX 66349

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, phoenixtears288 at c... wrote:
>
> OK, this one wasn't as easy as the last one. From what I 
conclude, "Pur" in the Motto means "alone".  
> 
>  So the motto is "Forever Alone." Hmm... anyone have a theory? 
> 
>   ~Paige Woods

As others have pointed out, it means "forever pure."  Black's family 
are proud of their so-called racial purity.  But to add to that, it 
reminded me of the term that "real" Quebecois (called French 
Canadians outside of Canada) call themselves: "pur laine," which 
translates roughly as "pure wool" or, more colloquially, "dyed-in-the-
wool".  The meaning's the same: that notion of purity in families who 
can trace their ancestry back to the first French immigrants.  My 
father's family, impoverished though they are, trace their roots in 
Quebec back to about 1650, so that makes them as pur laine as 
anybody.  And yes, purity of blood is used in some quarters of Quebec 
as horribly as it is in the WW--to get rid of all the Anglos and non-
white immigrants, for one thing!

Red Inkstone