[HPforGrownups] The other Blacks (was "The Animagus Black!")

[Tim Johnson Family]

No: HPFGUIDX 80033

Jen Reese wrote:
>If it was written with a comma, it would read: "you know, the
>animagus, Black" as opposed to the other pesky animagi LV knows like
>Prongs and Wormtail (and perhaps others to be revealed?).

>As it's written without a comma, I read: "the animagus Black, as
>opposed to the other Blacks who aren't animagi," i.e. Regulus or
>Andromeda.
<snip> More likely the comment could refer to Andromeda, who is presumably
still alive as Tonks talks about her in the >present tense when they are
cleaning Harry's room.
<snip> I would take this even farther to say that the Marauders and perhaps
others who are animagi (i.e., the Longbottoms?) >were succesful in defying
Voldemort longer than their peers *because* of their animagi abilities. So
LV is particularly >interested in who has this ability and who doesn't.

When it comes to "other Blacks who aren't animagi," there aren't any more
Blacks at all. It's stated, very decisively, that Sirius is the last of the
Blacks. Andromeda's name is Tonks. Regulus is dead. That's one of the things
that makes what she said stand out to me.
But, aha! More evidence that the Auror, Frank Longbottom, illegally became
an Animagus and never told his employer! Interesting if he was . . .  maybe
the Longbottoms are EVIL.
--RTJ