Mrs. Black, Sirius a traitor, flint? (was Re: A Number of Questions)

[sarcasticmuppet]

No: HPFGUIDX 81809

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Tanya Swaine <swaine.t at x> wrote:
> KathyK:

<snip>

> One thing doesn't quite fit there.  She did blast him off the 
family tree
> when he left home, and if she believed he had changed and been LV's
> right hand man, surely would have reinstated him.
> 
> Tanya

Assuming Sirius even could have been reinstated, I think Sirius 
running away caused enough animosity in the family to rile up their 
pride nomatter what Sirius did later.  Remember what Kreacher said to 
Sirius, something like "You broke your mother's heart" (no book w/me, 
sorry)?  I think dispite it all, Mrs. Black loved her son, and was 
truly hurt to the point of burning him off the family tree.  This is 
what kept her from reinstating him after he went to prison for being 
Voldemort's right hand man.  It's completely a pride issue.

--sarcasticmuppet, who imagines Mrs. Black kept all the prophet 
clippings about Sirius--