The Black Bloodline

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No: HPFGUIDX 115025


usual apolgies if this is 'me too' or stepping on the toes of 
earlier posts I haven't seen.

Grimmauld Place belongs to the 'Blacks' and the tapestry is about 
the noble and ancient house of Blacks. Yet in the chapter of the 
same title (OoP, Ch.6) Kreacher clearly owes his allegiance much 
more to Sirius' mother than his father and her portrait in an 
earlier chapter screams of half breeds and, above all, 'how dare you 
befoul the house of my fathers -'. 

SURELY, it isn't HER father's house (meaning either her actual 
father or her forefathers) since she (presumably) gained the name 
Black by marriage? Here are some equally peculiar possibilities;

-Sirius' mother didn't change her name upon marriage.
-It was such a close intermarriage that both were called Hubby and 
Wife-to-be were Blacks already and she insisted on living in 'her' 
home.
- She made HIM adopt HER name. 
-She didn't marry Sirius' father (unthinkable I think in WW)
-She has so embraced her 'new' (as opposed to birth) family to the 
point of feeling 'descended' - through her children at least
- A Flint (unlikely)

Another of those things that make you go hmmmmmmmm