Tapestry!!!

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 169973

bboyminn:
<snip> 
> I think in time, had things worked out better for 
> Sirius and Harry, they both would have regretted 
> trashing all those family artifacts. I think as
> things are, Harry will deeply regret not having 
> them around because to him they don't represent
> the negative history of the family, they 
> represent Sirius. 
<snipped the rest of your post but want to mention it holds a 
beautiful sentiment)

Dana:
Although I understand what you are saying but to some extent the 
material part of the house is actually not part of Sirius and does 
not represent him. These artifacts represent what the Black House 
stood for and that is not Sirius, so to me these artifacts would not 
be needed to build a new House of Black with different values then 
the old one. Artifacts are memories of the past and although surely 
some things might have been worth saving, Sirius's chosen past can 
not be found in these artifacts. 

I personally do not feel that Harry's lash out towards Mundungus had 
anything to do with the artifacts but with the disrespect Mundungus 
showed Sirius by robbing his house. More like vultures picking the 
skin of the bones as soon as their prey has exhaled the last breath, 
before the body has time to cool off so to speak. 

Now the tapestry I agree will just be but for some time now I have 
been thinking about the need to have Sirius's name blasted off it. It 
seems that the tapestry is magical enchanted to write itself but when 
a person is blasted off it stops recording that person's genealogical 
present and future. Tonks for instance was not registered on it 
because her mother was blasted of it. This makes me think it was not 
just a plot device to show family relations but also to conceal 
something.  

When Harry returns to GP to search for the locket he will probably 
come across the tapestry again but Sirius death date will not be on 
it because the tapestry will not be recording anything concerning 
Sirius. 

Yes, I know people will say he is dead but I'm not convinced because 
canon foreshadows that he will be back as much as it foreshadowed his 
coming dead. 
So to me the tapestry could also be a metaphor that the line of 
Black's as it excited has indeed died because even if Sirius lives 
and has kids, the tapestry will not register them because Sirius was 
cut out of the tapestry magic that keeps track of the members within 
the Black family. 

So even the tapestry will not make Sirius's dead final like it did 
with Regulus or Sirius's mother and father. The blasting off seems to 
specifically be a plot device for this reason (besides introducing 
some family relations) because no person's relations to the Black 
family was specifically concealed by no longer being mentioned. Black 
women marrying outside of the direct line are indeed Black descedents 
but their children's children don't seem to be considered Blacks 
anymore and therefore seemed to fall out side of the tapestry magic. 
So even if Tonks had been on there then her children will no longer 
be considered within the direct line of Blacks and *this* tapestry 
would not keep a record of them.

So say I'm in denial LOL but I think Sirius will have his chance to 
built his own line of Blacks and create his own new Black family 
history, just like Harry will do for the Potters. Neither of them 
will be making GP their permanent home because that part of the 
Blacks is gone forever. Sirius will make amendments with his past and 
he will probably get himself some mementos from what the Blacks once 
stood for to keep reminding himself that he made the right choices. 

JMHO

Dana