Malfoys on the Tapestry

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 95854

> ~ Chelle wrote:
> Sirius says most of the pure-blooded families are related in Book 5.
> The Weasleys are related but have been removed, one would think,
> centuries ago because of their complete absence from the tapestry
> where others are merely burned off. That was a viable reason for 
their complete absence, but what of the Malfoys?
> The only reference to the Malfoys is Lucius marrying Narcissa and
> joining the line through the birth of Draco.
> Are the Malfoys so elite they have intermarried within themselves 
for centuries, or are they not as pureblooded as one might think?


Mandy here:
The Malfoy's will be on the tapestry somewhere.

There are probably only a hand full of principal pure blood families 
that exist in the European WW.  They are all going to be related at 
more than one point in their history.  Everyone is everyone's cousin 
or aunt or uncle, etc.   The connections, marriages between cousins, 
aunts and uncles, don't have to occur every single generation but 
every other generation or sometimes skipping backwards or forwards a 
generation or two.  Skipping a generation would help to keep the 
genes cleaner, but ultimately the families are going to suffer from 
in-breading.  And I think they do, it could explain the emergence of 
family members who seem to be without remorse or a conscience, like 
Bellatrix Lestrange and Lucius Malfoy. But I digress....

Anyhow, the Malfoys and the Black almost certainly related a 
somewhere, and the area of the tree that Harry was looking at didn't 
show that connection.  

In a way that is similar to the British royal family and the way it 
connects to the royal houses of Europe, the Black and Malfoy family 
trees are going to be huge!  And I mean huge!  Try checking out any 
royal family tree on the web and you can only see small parts of it 
at a time.  I think that is what occurred with Harry and Sirius (and 
us) we only saw a very small part of the tree.  That's not to say the 
rest of the tree isn't there, it may or may not be.  But if it was 
you can not take in a 10-foot square tapestry in one glance. (Just a 
hypothetical figure.)  You have to really take the time to look at 
it, to read it all of it's hundreds of name, to really see it all.  
Perhaps Harry will take the time to go back to Grimmauld Place and 
study that tapestry a bit closer, for longer.  I'm sure he will be in 
for some surprises.  

Cheers, Mandy