OOPosts since Release Day-HouseElves/Luna/Sirus/FamilyTree/MoreSnape

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Steve bboy_mn wrote:

<< However, if an elf gets feed up an walks away from his job and his 
family, there is nothing anyone can do about it. He suffers dishonor, 
disgrace, and total banishment, but no force of magical or statutory 
law. >>

I think Dobby was quite fed up enough with the Malfoys to have 
accepted dishonor, disgrace, and banishment for the sake of leaving 
them, but he didn't leave them until he got the sock. I think that 
indicates that the House Elves are held in a magical bondage.

Btw, did you see the post accusing you of being JKR in disguise to 
steal ideas from our list?  

Eric Oppen wrote:

<< once [Luna] decides to start noticing boys, 
_look out, Hogwarts!_ >>

That depends on whether she avoids acne and chubbiness.

<< (Dumbledore as a Possessive Papa...frightening thought!)

I doubt anyone as laid-back as Dumbledore would be the Possessive 
Papa. Of course he'd be just as concerned for his great-great-grand- 
daughter's safety as for Harry, but he'd taken care of that by making 
sure she can take care of herself. As for broken hearts or broken 
hymens, surely he recognizes that as part of life.

Oryomai wrote:

<< Sirius lives!   ... somewhere.  >>

In our hearts. In our memories. In time past (reachable by time 
travel). 

Where he has always lived: in stories.

Catherine McKiernan wrote:

<< My Narcissa question relates to her appearance; why do she and her 
sister look so completely different? Bellatrix is dark haired, with 
hooded eyes, Narcissa blonde. Okay, stand them next to each other and 
the jaw might be the same, but still..., they're hardly the spitting 
image. Now, black hair runs in the family. So does Narcissa simply 
bleach because Lucius prefers blondes? Is there a peroxide potion 
in the bathroom cabinet? Or ... does Draco's mother have a hidden 
talent? >>

The Blacks appear to have a family tradition of astronomical names 
(as in so much fanfic), Sirius, Regulus, Bellatrix are stars and 
Andromeda is a constellation. (The tradition seems not to go back 
many generations: I don't know of anything in astronomy named 
Elladora or Phineas Nigellus.) [Phineas Nigellus means Black Black, 
look up Phineas and Nigel in http://www.behindthename.com/ ) 

But "Narcissa" is not an astronomical name. (As mentioned by Amura.)

Both her name and coloring don't match her relatives, so I suspect 
she might be a HALF-sister of Bellatrix and Andromeda: same father, 
different (blonde) mother. Since the Main List ban on fanfic seems to 
have dissolved in the flood of posts, I like to think that Narcissa 
and Lucius were first cousins through their mothers... I invented the 
silver-blonde sisters Lucretia Malfoy and Lucasta [Black], daughters 
of Leucothea Borgin, nee Apostolopoulos, who was half-Veela...

Speaking of that family tree, was Severus Snape on it? The Black 
house is very much the kind of house I imagined him growing up in, 
except isolated in the countryside rather than in the city.

(Tim complained on the lack of any pun about the Black house / the 
White House.)

Marianne Zarleycat wrote:

<< In one of Mrs. Black's rants, she says something along the lines 
of how horrible it is that these vile creaturs and blood traitors, 
etc. are besmirching the house of her fathers. That implies to me 
that 12 Grimmauld Place came to the Black family via marriage from 
her side of the union. We never learn Mrs. Black's name. Wouldn't it 
be an interesting twist if her maiden name was Snape? >>

Personally, I think the Black house had long been the Black house. 
To me, Mrs. Black saying: "The house of my fathers" hinted that she 
might be a double Black (by birth and by marriage). I know there are 
some people on this list who get grossed out at the thought of even 
fourth cousins marrying, but to them I say, remember these folks are 
Dark wizards. 

However, I expect that the Snapes and the Blacks ARE related. Since 
the Snape memory that Harry broke through to seems to indicate that 
Severus resembles his father, perhaps his father's mother was a 
Black? Or could it be that hook-nosed man was NOT his father, but 
rather his mother's brother? Then Severus's own mother (presumably 
the woman being bullied by the man) could have been a Black.