[HPforGrownups] OOP: Grimmauld Place/In Defense of Harry and Molly

[Lynx412 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 66653

In a message dated 7/1/03 8:51:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
linlou43 at yahoo.com writes:


> I actually wonder if 12 Grimmauld Place belonged to the Black 
> family in the first place. Could it be that Sirius's mother was the 
> last of another line of pureblood wizards and once married to Black 
> they moved into *her* ancesteral home? The only names on the 
> tapestry that we are given surnames for are Belatrix, Narcissa, the 
> Malfoys and the surname of Tonk's muggle father. We really don't 
> know anything about *Mommy dearest's* family at all.  If she is the 
> last of her family, it would explain her maniacal drive to keep the 
> family name of her husband pure. It would be the only name she has 
> left. 

       I suspect that you have something there. In fact, I suspect that 
*Mommy Dearest's* surname was Nigellus. It would explain the Slytherin symbols, 
much like those in Phineas' portrait and why Phineas is so concerned with he last 
of the Blacks.

       Cheryl the Lynx


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