Happy Birthday, Draco

[heather the buzzard]

No: HPFGUIDX 130108

B.G. wrote:

>I, for one, think that Draco is not a pure blood and that may be 
>HIS detour - he will have to re-evaluate who he is.  The bit and 
>piece?  Draco's dad wanted him to go to Dumstrang, his mother did 
>not.  She said she didn't want him that far away from home.  Why? 
>It is not as if she visits him at Hogwarts.  I think that Dumstrang
>screens its students thoroughly and this would have revealed that 
>Draco (on his mother's side)was not a pure blood.  


That is an interesting idea, but Draco's mother Narcissa, is a Black.  And Sirius has said that his whole family is pureblood.  If Narcissa is not pureblood, then neither is Bellatrix, her sister.  
We know that their other sister Andromeda married a muggle, Ted Tonks -- but she's been basically disavowed from the family. 

Unless you want to consider the possibility that Narcissa, 
Andromeda, and Bellatrix are not full sisters -- that their mother had an affair or something.  JKR does give hints in names, and Narcissa's name is unique in this generation of the family for not being a name of a heavenly body.  Maybe she's a secret love-child... heh...

Of course, this is very unlikely given that this series, while more than just a 'kids book' does try to be 'family-oriented'. 

We do have other half-siblings though, with Hagrid and Grawp.  But 
that's not a 'lovechild' scenario, and if the sisters' mom had been 
re-married at some point, I'm sure the whole wizarding world would know about it...

heather the buzzard