Royalty in WW after all?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 106335

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lee Moyo <donpietro69 at y...> wrote:
Jacqui wrote:
<snip> 
> Andromeda was the princess of Ethiopia, daughter of Cepheus and 
> Cassiopeia.  
> That would give us our royalty aspect of HBP. I was looking up 
> Andromeda on the Lexicon but there is virtualy nothing on her. All 
> we know is that she married Ted Tonks (Whom we know NOTHING 
> about)...do we know anything else? Does Tonks have a brother????
 
Lee:
I am going out on a limb here and on memory but this could be
something. Correct me if I am wrong but Andromeda married a muggle, or
half blood, which is Ted Tonks and their daughter was Nymphadora (The
Tonks) and we all know that the Blacks thought being Black practically
made you to be like Royalty. So maybe it could be Tonks. <snip>

Carol responds:
We do know that Ted Tonks was a Muggleborn (not a half-blood) and that
Andromeda's name was burned off the Black Family tapestry because she
married him ("The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black," OoP. I don't
know the page number offhand.) We can also guess (as I think Neri said
the other day) that he's somewhat older than the Potters would be
because Tonks is somewhat older than Harry (about six years, I think)
and the Potters were very young when they had Harry. I'm guessing he'd
be about Lucius Malfoy's age, which was 41 at the end of GoF. That's
not much to go on, I know. It does make Tonks a half-blood, but I very
much doubt that she's the "prince," even if she does go by her last
name like a man. And I'm pretty sure she doesn't have a brother, or
Sirius would have mentioned him in the discussion of his relatives.

BTW, Andromeda's name is probably chiefly significant in that, like
most other Blacks (cf. Bellatrix, Sirius, and Regulus), she's named
after a constellation or star. Narcissa, named after a flower, is an
exception, but she resumed the tradition by naming her son Draco, in
the Black rather than the Malfoy tradition. I'm not sure that the
original Andromeda's being a queen has anything to do with it. But
then Bellatrix means "woman warrior" and Sirius is of course the Dog
Star, so maybe it does mean something.

Carol, who recalls reading that the Narcissus is a poisonous flower
and thinks we might want to look into that, too

Carol

Carol