[the_old_crowd] Re: Snape's Age RE: Tonks's age: A possible solution

[Eileen Rebstock]

Alec:
> I've long suspected that Lucius may have got the manor through
> Narcissa, but this theory (with Lucius living up to the family name)
> does have a real beauty to it!	

I wonder if Voldemort suspects Lucius. It could have something to do
with his displeasure.  

> Maybe the the two surviving branches of the Black family each had one
> of the family homes: Sirius' parents had the London house, and
> Narcissa's parents the country house - suggesting that Sirius' dad was
> the younger of the two brothers. After all, the family is considerably
> older than any London terraced house.

I've wondered if the split in the family was actually a generation back
so that Sirius's father and Bella's were first cousins. But Sirius's
mother was also the sister of Bella's father. A first cousin marriage
isn't so odd in this context whatever the fandom thinks. The reason I
wonder this is because Mrs. Black refers to Grimmauld Place as "the
house of my fathers", making me think she's no only related to her
husband, but closely related. And secondly, I think she's portrayed as
very like the older edition of Bellatrix, which would make sense if they
were aunt and niece by blood.

> Actually, it would make better sense if the last of the
> sisters' parents died "after" Bellatrix was sent to Azkaban, and so
> left the house to Narcissa, as the only child who had not disgraced
> them in any way: after all, in chapter two, Bellatrix doesn't seem to
> treat Narcissa as someone who's "directly" stolen her house!

True enough.

Eileen