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

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 66674

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 Lynx412 at aol.com wrote:

> 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.

I think Phineas is one of the Blacks, not from a different family.  
Nigellus means "dark", or, essentially, "black".  Thus his last name is 
the same as Sirius's, just in a different language (Latin instead of 
English).

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"