CHAPTER DISCUSSIONS - Chapter 6 - The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86080

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "huntergreen_3" <patientx3 at a...>
wrote:
> Claire wrote:
> > 11) If pure bloods are so limited that they have to intermarry,
> and
> > Molly and Arthur are related to the Blacks, shouldn't some Weasley
> > ancestor be on the family tree? Surely they couldn't all be "blood
> > traitors".
> 
> Marianne replied:
> >>I think the tapestry leaves us with a lot of questions. If one
> assumes that Slytherin is made up of mostly pure-bloods, then
> shouldn't Snape's name have also been on the tapestry? You'd think
> that name would have caught Harry's eye, as would the names Weasley
> or Potter...Either we'll discover at a later time that these names
> really are here and Harry just didn't notice, or this is one of the
> many details we obsess over that is of no importance to JKR.<<
> 
> HunterGreen:
> Its exteremly curious that both Snape and Potter not in the tapestry. 
> I can almost understand the Snape thing (for some reason I have this 
> thought that his family is from a different WW 'circle', like out of 
> country or something--that could even been the cause of some of his 
> social problems), but its odd that the Potters aren't on there. 
>  I can't see Sirius either not mentioning it or never noticing (he 
> probably looking *specifically* for a Potter relative at some point 
> as a teenager, I know I would if there was a chance I was [albeit 
> distantly] related to my best friend). If there was one I don't see 
> why he wouldn't make a point of mentioning it to Harry....unless 
> there's some reason for him NOT to. 
> 
> 
> -HunterGreen.

Again, maybe the connection to both the Potters and the Snapes is
through Sirius's mother's line, which wouldn't show up on a chart
showing only the "Noble and Most Ancient House of Black"--his father's
side of the family.

Carol