OOP Bellatrix, Narcissa & Sirius (was: Wizarding Relations)
joanne0012
Joanne0012 at aol.com
Tue Jul 1 21:34:51 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 66550
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "komagata_mai" <irreality at m...>
wrote:
> Harry gives fairly good
> > descriptions of both Bellatrix Lestrange (nee Black) and of
> Narcissa
> > Malfoy (nee Black) in GoF, and they don't seem like they could
> > genetically be full sisters. Belletrix is described as having
> very
> > dark coloring, whereas Narcissa has very fair hair (and, I think,
> > light eyes, but I'd have to check GoF again--if she doesn't have
> > light eyes, it would be against the odds for her son to have
> > inherited his father's light eye color).
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>
> I know a few siblings where one child has really dark hair and the
> other has light blonde hair. I don't think this should be an
> argument. I'm not sure how the eyes are described, but eye color is
> determined by several genes and is not that unlikely that Draco
> ended up with gray eyes (which could be light blue, light green,
> light hazel, or some weird combination of colors).
. . . I think it is quite plausible she had thought this out before. It
seems that it is part of the themes of the book, and if tonks can
> change her hair color and her nose at will, I say that a blonde
> member of the Black family is not unreasonable.
>
> --mai
Speaking as the brown-eyed mom of two blue-eyed kids, I'm certain that
genetic mix-and-match can produce just about anything; recessive genes like
light eyes can show up unexpectedly. And recessive genes are more likely to
show up in an inbred group, that's exactly why inbreeding is a bad thing!
Furthermore, I have one blonde kid, one flaming redhead (Weasley caliber)
and one kid with very dark hair and brown eyes. And so did my grandmother!
So I'm ready to believe any combination of traits in Blacks, Potters, Evanses,
Weasleys, whomever.
JKR has admitted that she found a gaping plot hole in Book 4 (IIRC) but since
she claims to have plotted out all 7 books in advance, it's hardly likely that
major changes in family trees were added as an afterthought. When I first
read the tapestry section, I imagined that Rowling had just writen-up one of
the charts she says she's made about the wizarding world.
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