[the_old_crowd] Re: By the way....

[Rebecca Bowen]

>Kneasy said:

(snip)

>Lyn - it's a bit odd, those deleting blotches.
>From what Sirius says it's those marrying Muggles or disgracing
>the family that get wiped.
>So how come Doria and Cally are still there?
>Weren't they disgraces too, marrying who they did?

Rebecca now:

Going with that being "practically royal to be a Black" notion Sirius 
mentions, this snippet of the Black bloodline looks be an example, to me 
anyway, of trying to display royal descent from the perspective that the 
elder Blacks considered themselves nobility - noble, at least back to 
Phineas' birth in 1847. "Ancient", hardly.  1847 isn't what I'd call 
"ancient."   Marry enough established nobility into a family in shorter 
timeframe and what do you have? Power and money, claim to the throne - think 
the rise of the House of Tudor here. In the case of Doria and Chuck Potter, 
I imagine they weren't blown off because pureblood nobility adds to the 
family's worth and they need as much as they can get (remember, the Noble 
House of Black isn't so "ancient", least by this view today) especially if 
you're trying to make your family appear more powerful, noble and regal in 
the shorter term.

IMO, removing family from the tapestry might need to be done with extreme 
emotion, magically speaking.  If it were so easy to remove those in one's 
family one didn't agree with or like and one were a wizard, why the 
"blasting?" Why not just modify it all nice and proper so no one would know 
the difference? The latter is what appears to have happened with Tonks. 
Sirius said it in OoP:

 "I see Tonks isn't on here. Maybe that's why Kreacher won't take orders 
from her - he's supposed to do whatever anyone in the family asks him -'"

Sirius was blasted off, but he was on the tapestry in the first place and 
the house was an inheritance for him; Sirius is the last of the Blacks, as 
Phineas Nigellus says. Tonks isn't even part of the family, as she wasn't 
never added to the tapestry at all.  Sweet way to *hide* the folks in the 
family you don't perceive any value from, isn't it? Much better to hide or 
ignore them than to burn them off the tapestry where it can be viewed - each 
burn could make the Black family look "weaker" in terms of the strength of 
nobility they wish to portray.

Can't wait to see the whole thing!

Rebecca