heraldry / Inheritance / Kreachur / Albania

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 88011

JoTwo Summerill wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/87859 :

<< I saw an interesting discussion once that JKR sometimes picks 
names for characters because the heraldry fits. The specific example
being quoted was the Evans coat of arms, which is a golden lion on a
blue background. The crest is a stag. This obviously fits Lily, as 
she was a Gryffindor and married James, who was a stag animagus. >>

[The post also discussed arms of Snape, Pettigrew, Dumbledore, Brown,
Finnigan, Black, Lestrange, Wilkes, Avery, Rosier]

You may be absolutely right about what JKR was thinking. However,
armorial bearings goes by inheritance rather than by surname. I mean,
families who have the same surname but are not related to each other
would have different arms. It seems to me that at least Evans, Brown,
and Black are common enough names that there would be multiple
armigerous families for each of those names. 

Steve bboy_mn wrote in 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/87872 :

<< Since it has come up again, I thought I would refer interested
parties back to previous discussion regarding what will happen to
Grimauld Place and the rest of the Black Family Estate. >>

I just had a New Idea about the Black Family Estate. I don't remember
who said "the last of the Blacks": was it someone in a position to
know whether Regulus had fathered a child before he died? Just how
knowledgeable is that tapestry: if he had secretly married a girl of
whom his parents would not have approved, would the marriage
automagically show on the tapestry, or does someone have to tell the
news to tapestry?
 
spangb wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/87944 :

<< after Hermione gets to know the real evil behaviour of Kreacher,
will her enthusiasm [for Elvish Welfare] be dampened? >>

Kreachur's behavior is very much like Dobby's behaviour: each felt a
great loyalty to someone other than his owner, and connived to help
the person to whom he was loyal at the expense of his owner.

Meri August wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/87958 :

<< Can anyone think of a good reason why LV would choose Albania as
his hideout, bot before SS and between then and GoF? >>

I think LV didn't exactly *choose* Albania as his hideout. I think
there was one part of one forest that happened to be in Albania to
which he was 'magnetically' pulled whenever he was disembodied: he
could resist the pull only when he was in a body (this does give me a
problem explaining how he could have left Albania with Quirrell if he
didn't possess Quirrell until after the Gringotts break-in). 

I figure that he is pulled back to that location because it is the
place where he did the spell that actually made him immortal. 

I figure he had already made himself into a red-eyed snake-man during
his earlier attempts at immortality spells.