Cousins by marriage ?

[sbursztynski]

No: HPFGUIDX 107148

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at y...> 
wrote:
>
> 
> If Molly's cousin married Sirius' cousin, his cousin would have to be
> on his mother's side of the family unless Molly's cousin is Lucius
> Malfoy, Rodolphus Lestrange, or Ted Tonks. (I know that Sirius's
> mother's painting screams about "her" family, but unless she was also
> a Black before her marriage, the Black sisters are her husband's
> relatives, not hers.)
> 
> Carol, who apologizes for coming in late on this thread and hopes she
> hasn't duplicated anybody's post.

Sue:

Given the inbreeding among the "purebloods" it's entirely possible that Mrs 
Black was, indeed, a Black before her marriage and married a cousin. BTW, 
she must have married quite late to be the old woman she is described as, 
because she had been dead for ten years at the start of OOTP and the 
portrait would have had to be painted before then, if it was painted from life. 
Sirius is only in his 30s and was in his 20s when she died. So maybe she is 
an earlier generation on the family tree, a generation before the Black 
sisters?