Which "One liners" do you think most beg for an explanation ?

emza29 emza at tesco.net
Thu Jun 23 19:13:31 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 131283

Ah... Mrs Black bugs me every time she yells:-

"Filth! Scum! By-products of dirt and vileness! Half-breeds, 
mutants, freaks, begone from this place! How dare you befoul the 
house of my fathers - " (p 74 OOTP UK edition)

and

'My father put every security measure known to wizardkind on it when 
he lived here' (p 106 as before)

and

'...nasty old blood traitor with her brats messing up my mistress's 
house, oh, my poor mistress, if she knew, if she knew the scum 
they've let into her house, what would she say to old Kreacher' (p 
100 as before)


Is Number 12 Grimmauld Place the Black ancestral seat or some other 
pureblood family's? If it's the house of the Toujours Pur Blacks, 
how is it the house of Mrs Black's fathers? If it's not the Black 
hereditament, who did it originally belong to? Do we know anything 
of Sirius's grandparents on his mother's side? Was Mrs Black perhaps 
born Miss Black, and when she married, either married another Black 
family member, or made Mr take her surname?  (It does seem to be an 
unusually matriarchal family.)

It's turned into more than one liners I'm afraid. But I'm curious.

Emma
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