We're all related, you know, and not just a little bit. Well, all the English wizarding families, I mean. If you go back far enough, we've all married each other five or six times at least, or else we've killed each other. Some of both in every family, I reckon. So we're either joining trees together or blasting each other's names off the trees to make separate ones.
That's one of the sad things about the Blacks--they're dying out. Maybe there are still cousins somewhere, but what if Sirius Black, wherever he is, ends up being the only one to have children. I don't know whether he has any. Do you? I don't think I've ever heard. But if he did have, and if his brother doesn't, those could be the only Blacks someday, and would that mean they wouldn't count? Because of who their father was? Would one of the really old families just die out, y'know, officially? Because their father was a traitor and moved out of the country and all? You know, there are actually a load of old families that are sort of down to their last one or two, it seems like. I mean, isn't Nott the last one in his family? And Malfoy? And Parkinson. I mean, my family's not and some others, but I guess it's good families like yours and the Sandovals moved here when they did.
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We're all related, you know, and not just a little bit. Well, all the English wizarding families, I mean. If you go back far enough, we've all married each other five or six times at least, or else we've killed each other. Some of both in every family, I reckon. So we're either joining trees together or blasting each other's names off the trees to make separate ones.
That's one of the sad things about the Blacks--they're dying out. Maybe there are still cousins somewhere, but what if Sirius Black, wherever he is, ends up being the only one to have children. I don't know whether he has any. Do you? I don't think I've ever heard. But if he did have, and if his brother doesn't, those could be the only Blacks someday, and would that mean they wouldn't count? Because of who their father was? Would one of the really old families just die out, y'know, officially? Because their father was a traitor and moved out of the country and all? You know, there are actually a load of old families that are sort of down to their last one or two, it seems like. I mean, isn't Nott the last one in his family? And Malfoy? And Parkinson. I mean, my family's not and some others, but I guess it's good families like yours and the Sandovals moved here when they did.