[the_old_crowd] Re: Black family names (astronomy)

[Heidi Tandy]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:15PM -0500, Monika Huebner wrote:
> Real-To:  Monika Huebner <mo.hue at ...>
>
>
> I always thought she was named for her qualities, or maybe because
> Rowling seems to have a thing for giving her female characters the
> names of flowers.
>
>>  I suppose one could think up some kind of
>> backstory concerning Narcissa Black's birth and childhood that
>> explains why she was given a non-astronomical name (could she be a
>> bastard child? or her mother had her in a previous marriage?). Any
>> other theories?
>
> Hm, wouldn't Sirius have mentioned this to Harry when he showed him
> the family tree? The fact she doesn't look like her sister Bellatrix
> (who is dark like Sirius) doesn't mean anything, I think. Genes
> sometimes act in a weird fashion. And we don't know what Andromeda
> looks like, I was wondering if the "dark goods looks" were a family
> trait of the Blacks. (Just musing.)

Or perhaps she's also a metamorphomagus, which I never spell right, and 
looks the way her husband wants her to? That family does seem to have 
some innate talent for physical transformation - even sirius would 
likely have known about tonks' ability before he became an animagus, 
because she doesn't seem to be more than 15 years younger thanhe is - 
close but not more...
But if a cousin closer to him in age was able to do so, it mightve given 
him more confidence in it.

And great, now I'm musing that draco's the one in harry's year with the 
genetic coding to manage being an animagus...

Heidi