The ancient and most noble house of Black

[lagattalucianese]

No: HPFGUIDX 147328

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jlv230" <jlv230 at y...> wrote:
>
> Did anyone see the partial view of the Black family tree drawn by 
JKR 
> for a charity auction? It is very interesting - for example you can 
> make out that a Son of Phineas Nigellus married Violetta Bulstrode, 
> and their Daughter Dorea, born in 1920, married a Charlus Potter and 
> they had one son (James?). I wonder why Harry never noticed...
> 
La Gatta Lucianese:

Probably because Dorea and Charles Potter weren't Harry's 
grandparents. (See my post #147285 on the subject.)
> 
> I hope we'll be able to see the full picture soon. It is amazing to 
> see how closely connected the wizarding world is.
> 
> JLV xx
>
La Gatta Lucianese:

You can. There's a reproduction of it in The Harry Potter Lexicon, 
under "The Black Family Tree".

In response to Lolita:
> 
> ...and being stuck with 15 year-olds or people (at least)
> twice his age for better part of 15ish years didn't help Snape's
> emotional maturation either.
> 
La Gatta Lucianese:

Dumbledore's relationship with Snape (and McGonagall's too; I wish JKR 
showed us more of it) is definitely more "in loco parentis" than 
colleague to colleague. Snape, even as an adult, doesn't seem to have 
any close friends among his agemates (I don't think you could describe 
Lucius Malfoy as a close friend, by any stretch of the imagination). 
Maybe what drove Snape into the arms of the Death Eaters after he left 
Hogwarts was simply loneliness.