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PostPosted: March 19, 2008 3:50 pm    Post subject: A question regarding the tapestry of the House of Black Reply with quote

How does that tapestry with the family tree of the House of Black on it work?

I've come up with three possiblities, but which one is it?

1: The owner of the tapestry must add new names to the tapestry manually.

2: A marrage or birth must be announced near or to the tapestry for the name to be added?

3: If someone on the tapestry gets married or has a child, the name will be added automatically regardless of the will of it's owner.
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PostPosted: March 19, 2008 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I guess someone initially made the tapestry.

Siriu ssaid his mom blasted him off the tapestry. I think a lot of the owrk is done manually. Well, with magic, but the wizards and witches in the family themselves (Sirius's mom, for instance) does the work with their wand.
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PostPosted: March 19, 2008 4:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

^I agree.
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PostPosted: March 19, 2008 6:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

GinnyX wrote:
I guess someone initially made the tapestry.

Of course. But it has to be updated. Didn't Kreatcher say that it'd been in the family for 50 years or something? That means there has to be some magic that adds new names. But how?
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PostPosted: March 19, 2008 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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GinnyX wrote:
I guess someone initially made the tapestry.

Of course. But it has to be updated. Didn't Kreatcher say that it'd been in the family for 50 years or something? That means there has to be some magic that adds new names. But how?


I gave my opinion in my first post.... I think someone adds the names on. With a wand or enchanted needles or whatever.
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PostPosted: March 19, 2008 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

^That someone could possibly be Kreacher.
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PostPosted: March 19, 2008 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it was made by some one initially. Had to of been..

But I think it could possibly be updated automatically.. (this is the wizarding world we are talking about.)

Possibly some kind of spell the maker put on it when he/she made it.
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PostPosted: March 20, 2008 5:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I heard it was just a bunch of words in a book.
but hey what would i know.
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PostPosted: March 20, 2008 9:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

JordanNZ wrote:
I heard it was just a bunch of words in a book.
but hey what would i know.


What was just a bunch of words in a book?
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PostPosted: March 20, 2008 10:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think that the tapestry is magically updated whenever someone gets married or a birth. It would start to get difficult to do it manually after a while.
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PostPosted: March 20, 2008 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree.

I think it's updated automatically, BUT when it was started obviously some sort of charm was put on it. I think Sirius' mother and/or Kreacher have some control over it.
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PostPosted: March 20, 2008 3:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

These sort of things ar usually handed down from generation to generation... and usually as wedding gifts.
I wonder if it was someone higher up on the tree that first started the tapestry. My guess is either Ursula Flint or Violetta Bulstrode.
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PostPosted: March 20, 2008 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I personaly thik that the tapastry was ,like, manualy made at begining
but then the owner put a charm on it to continue the family tree
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PostPosted: March 21, 2008 6:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I agree with pottergirl, it would've been okay at the start to do it manually but then they got fed up and charmed it.
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PostPosted: March 21, 2008 5:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The "OotP" movie implies that it updates automatically. This is prooven buy the fact that at the charred hole where Andoria (spelling?) was, the name Ted Tonks was added. This implies that Mrs. Black burned off her niece after the tapestry automatically updated.
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PostPosted: March 24, 2008 8:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i think the tapestry magically updates itself because if it were up to mrs black or krecher they would not recognise the family members that they disliked.

so i feel it is enchanted to auto update.
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PostPosted: March 24, 2008 10:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Forlong wrote:
The "OotP" movie implies that it updates automatically. This is prooven buy the fact that at the charred hole where Andoria (spelling?) was, the name Ted Tonks was added. This implies that Mrs. Black burned off her niece after the tapestry automatically updated.


Andromeda? Sirius says that his mother burned a hole there with her wand. But only after she married Ted Tonks. Before that she was a Black. How could they have known when she was born that she would one day end up marrying a muggle-born? That isn't proof of the tapestry being updated at all.
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