Where is our Prince? (And Where Did Those Wizards Get Their Titles?)

[elaine adamski]

No: HPFGUIDX 111732

Debbie <elfundeb at comcast.net> wrote:
> I think that at least some wizarding aristocrats liked 
> muggle titles just fine, since they didn't hesitate to
> use them notwithstanding their muggle origin.  (And the 
> old-fashioned ones, like Nearly Headless Nick, still do
> like to use their titles.  NHN had his title on his 
> Deathday cake.)  Certainly referring to one's family as
> the "Noble and Most Ancient House of Black" implies that
> some wizards left their titles -- at least insofar as 
> they represented notions of superiority -- behind with 
> some regret.
 

Forgive me, but you have contradicted the string in
the last sentence.  If your belief is that the wizards
were titled via a muggle interbreeding, then how could
the House of Black - a pureblood house - be noble?

"elaine adamski"