House of my Father - Kissing Cousins

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 148679

I don't recall this ever being discussed after the latest Black Family
Tree information was released- 

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/blackfamilytree.html

In OotP, Mrs. Black in one of her hysterical rants uses the term
'...house of my father...'. Well that seems odd since Mrs. Black
married into the Black family, so really, the Black house shouldn't be
the House of her father, it should be the house of her husbands
father. In the past, I have simply considered it a figure of speech
indicating that by marriage she now considered herself a Black.

But, she was a Black in name before her marriage. Perhaps someone who
understands all this 'second cousing twice removed' stuff can glace at
the family tree and determine exactly what Mrs. Black relationship was
to her husband before marriage. (fourth cousins?)

Both Mr and Mrs Black have a common ancestor at Phineas Nigellus. That
would be Sirius's Great Great Grandfather. I supose that makes them
both genetically and legally distant enough cousins that their
marriage wouldn't be a problem. 

So, Sirius and Regulus are the product of the marriage of Orion Black
and Walburga Black.

All I can say is - odd but strange.

Steve - bboyminn

PS: A short public apology to both Christina and Carol. In recent
posts I have agree with them in a way in which my agreement wasn't
clear. In a sense, I agree in a way that came off as a somewhat
negative disagreement. This frequently happens when I'm making a
general statement to the subject, but responding in post to a specific
person, and that usually causes confusion. I promise I am going to
work on prefacing such general posts in a way that makes my intent
clear. Sorry.