Dobby revisited

[tanzgabu]

No: HPFGUIDX 83641

"silver_owl_01"
"> Were forgeting a little detail. In OotP Sirius says that almost 
all the pureblood wizard families are interconnected by marriage or 
> blood, the most fanatically racist more than any, given how few 
> choices there were available for marriage. Every pureblood is 
> probably related in one degree or another to every other. 
> 
> Given how inbred the purebloods must be, it's not too far fetched 
to assume that James could've been related to the Malfoys in some 
> degree, hence Dobby could justify himself about going to Harry." 


The one thing that makes me wonder about the whole Malfoy/Potter 
intermarriage thing, is when Sirius and Harry are looking at the 
Black genealogy. Sirius doesn't mention *anything* about a Potter 
being on the tapestry, which makes me wonder. If the purebloods are 
so interrelated, why are there no connections with the Potters? 
Maybe Sirius just chose not to mention it, but I tend to lean away 
from that because of Sirius going to live with the Potters. They 
might have been more like the Weasleys, who were shunned by the 
other pureblood families. 

They must not have been the kind of old wizarding family that the 
Blacks and the Malfoys were, hence them not having any marriages 
together that we've heard of. On that note, there were also 
speculations that it was the Potters' elf first. I can't figure out 
why the Potters would give him up to the Malfoys, of all people. 
Especially with no connections that we've been able to see so far.

Sorry about the lack of structure.. I had a lot of random ideas at 
once. 

-tanzgabu