Monday, February 13, 2006

The Noble and Most Ancient House of BLACK

The black family tree, from the lady herself.

In a recent auction for charity(?), Jo Rowling released the Black Family Tree that she'd partially revealed to us while Sirius and Harry were discussing its features in OotP. Even now she hasn't revealed the complete thing to us, and has had almost half of the family tree blurred out in its pictures. Obviously she's done this for a reason - Book 7. Now what family linkage among the Blacks could possibly be giving away some plot details?

Anyways, you can see the part that she has revealed here, and Leaky Cauldron has a retyped version too as the scan isn't exactly readable casually. There are some interesting things to be noted, starting with a certain Charlus Potter who was married to Dorea (1920-1977) and the couple had one son. Could that son be Harry's grandfather? Also funny is the fact that while Draco (who's not a Black) has his name mentioned, the others have 1s or 1d etc. written. That was probably because Jo wouldn't have thought it important to mention the others, or is it due to some other reason? Well have a look for yourself and pen down your comments.

3 Comments:

Blogger V said...

It is a possibility, but I doubt it.
Mainly beacuse, as you people have already said, that Rowling wouldn't introduce any new characters.So the un-named ones should ideally remain so-unnamed.

February 14, 2006 4:21 pm  
Blogger Rohit Nag said...

ya even i think she mite not introduce some one new to play a signefcant part, but still she has kept things secret and wen she does dat....its for a reason. may be the names wont directly play any part but may be revealing them would let away vital clues abt other significant characters.

February 15, 2006 3:40 pm  
Blogger V said...

possibily.

February 15, 2006 5:59 pm  

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