Three Black sisters on a tree

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No: HPFGUIDX 106735

Valky:
LOL I actually got Draco as Rudolphus' Son! When reading the message
board.

Neri:
my apologies to Draco. It seems Yahoo do not recognize spaces as the 
first character in a line. I'll try replacing the spaces with dots 
(but you still need to use an even font like Courier to get it 
right). The Tree thus looks like:

...................
.R===B...A...N===L.
...............!...
...............D...
...................

And before the weddings it must have been like this:

...................
.....B...A...N.....
...................
...................
...................



> Sherrie here:
> 
> Yes, that is indeed standard genealogical presentation - but 
there's another 
> possibility.  What if the age difference isn't years - but rather 
minutes?  
> We've seen that twins are not unknown in the WW - suppose that 
Bella & 'Drom are 
> twins?  Or even (though this is stretching, I suppose) that the 
three girls 
> are triplets?
> 

Neri:
Good idea, although you would perhaps expect Sirius to mention that 
Andromeda is Bella's twin. I've just thought about another simple way 
to spare poor Andromeda the scandal of teen pregnancy in addition to 
the shame of her M*dblood husband. It might be assumed that Bellatrix 
is actually 4 years older than the Marauders (5 years is also 
possible but seems too much, since Sirius mentioned Snape in the 
same "gang of Slytherins" with the Lestranges, but didn't mention 
Lucius in this gang). When Sirius says to Harry "I didn't see 
Bellatrix since I was your age" he means that he saw her last at the 
Black house, after she had already graduated from Hogwarts. She was 
19 and he was 15. In this case Andromeda could be 18 at the time, and 
giving birth to Tonks at such an age is not so terrible.

Neri