Black family ponderings
Apr. 13th, 2006 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosie_ruesSo, I finally went and looked at the Black Family Tree properly. It took me three seconds to decide to disregard the birthdates of the Black sisters - because they make no sense (full rant may be forthcoming). I also wanted to check what Sirius' mother was called.
That's where it got interesting. She's called Walburga Black and, according to the tree, was born in 1925. Tom Riddle was born at the end of 1926. Both would have been in Slytherin, although Walburga would have been the year above Tom.
The Death Eaters were originally called the Knights of Walpurgis, named after Walpurgis Night, or the Eve of saint Walpurga.
Isn't that interesting?
EDIT: I have also solved the mystery of the Black sisters! The Blacks, after centuries of magical inbreeding, clearly suffer from an inherited temporal instability. This explains how Cygnus Black was chronologically only 13 at the time of Bella's birth. He had, in fact, lived those years three times over, and was beginning to go bald. Little Bella inherited the family curse in full, and at the age of five began to grow steadily younger. Her frantic parents managed to stop the reversion before Bella disappeared entirely, but she was forced to relive her toddlership. Three bouts of potty training scarred young Bella for life. This explains how Bella was both a) born in 1951 and the eldest Black sister, and b) a school contemporary of Severus Snape (born 1959). Bella finished school some years after her 'younger' sister Andromeda eloped with a charming young muggleborn who aged at a sensible rate.
This also, of course, explains what happened when Sirius Black fell through the Veil. Anyone else would have just dropped straight out the other side. Unfortunately, Sirius' genetic predisposition, in combination with Bella's instability and the general weirdiness of the Department of Mysteries, led to him being catapulted back through time. Sirius is currently residing in the fifteenth century where he is busy explaining flying motorbikes to Leonardo da Vinci while he tries to reinvent the time turner from scratch.
That's where it got interesting. She's called Walburga Black and, according to the tree, was born in 1925. Tom Riddle was born at the end of 1926. Both would have been in Slytherin, although Walburga would have been the year above Tom.
The Death Eaters were originally called the Knights of Walpurgis, named after Walpurgis Night, or the Eve of saint Walpurga.
Isn't that interesting?
EDIT: I have also solved the mystery of the Black sisters! The Blacks, after centuries of magical inbreeding, clearly suffer from an inherited temporal instability. This explains how Cygnus Black was chronologically only 13 at the time of Bella's birth. He had, in fact, lived those years three times over, and was beginning to go bald. Little Bella inherited the family curse in full, and at the age of five began to grow steadily younger. Her frantic parents managed to stop the reversion before Bella disappeared entirely, but she was forced to relive her toddlership. Three bouts of potty training scarred young Bella for life. This explains how Bella was both a) born in 1951 and the eldest Black sister, and b) a school contemporary of Severus Snape (born 1959). Bella finished school some years after her 'younger' sister Andromeda eloped with a charming young muggleborn who aged at a sensible rate.
This also, of course, explains what happened when Sirius Black fell through the Veil. Anyone else would have just dropped straight out the other side. Unfortunately, Sirius' genetic predisposition, in combination with Bella's instability and the general weirdiness of the Department of Mysteries, led to him being catapulted back through time. Sirius is currently residing in the fifteenth century where he is busy explaining flying motorbikes to Leonardo da Vinci while he tries to reinvent the time turner from scratch.
