Iâve been having loads of thoughts about the Black family lately. I honestly think theyâre morally grey, despite everything people say, and in my WIP Intertwined I write them as âgoodâ.
Yeah, I know theyâre obsessed with blood purity and all that blah blah blah, but hear me out, Orion and Walburga were probably at Hogwarts at the same time as Tom Riddle. They mustâve known he was a half-blood.
Now, do you really believe people as obsessed with blood purity as them would actually become followers of Voldemort, knowing exactly where he came from? I read somewhere, canât remember where, that they never openly supported Voldemort like loads of other pure-blood families did.
So I just canât see them forcing their precious pure-blood heirs to follow someone theyâd consider inferior.
We know Regulus was obsessed with Voldemort, probably because of Bellatrix and other mates at Hogwarts, but I genuinely donât think his parents would stoop to following anyone, let alone someone with a background that contradicts everything they believe in, and one they likely knew about.
What we do know about Walburga is that she was arrogant, cold, and thought she was better than everyone else. She saw her blood as superior to all others, and we donât really know what her relationship with Sirius was like beyond the fact she hated him being sorted into Gryffindor and thought he was filth for mixing with âlesserâ people.
And we know absolutely nothing about Orion, probably because he was absent and left all the family matters for his wife to deal with.
But I keep coming back to this idea⌠they saw themselves as royalty, and I just canât picture them, with all that arrogance and pride, bowing down to someone like Voldemort.
Sirius himself is quite an arrogant character. He sees himself as superior to certain people, probably because of how he was raised.
You can see that in the way he treats Snape and Peter with a lot of condescension, because he views them as beneath him. Thereâs even that scene when theyâre teenagers where he basically tells James to get his head out of his arse.
He also mocks a teenage Remus when Remus suggests they study for their O.W.L.s, Sirius brushes it off, saying he doesnât need to study because he already knows everything. And his arrogance really shows in the way he talks about that âprankâ where he sent Snape to meet a werewolf, acting like it was deserved, even years later.In the end, I donât think Sirius running away from home and being burned off the family tapestry necessarily has anything to do with physical abuse.
The Blacks were extremely proud and arrogant, Sirius included.
They believed in what they believed, and saw their views as the only truth. I can easily imagine that clashing at some point, turning the household into something unbearable, until teenage Sirius just couldnât take it anymore and left.
And Walburga, being as cold and arrogant as she was, wouldâve burned that âdeviantâ son, who mixed with âlesserâ people, off the family tapestry, and spent the rest of her life lamenting the son she saw as a disgrace to her own flesh, simply because he no longer believed in her version of the truth.
Donât judge me, I love Sirius, but I donât see him as black and white. Heâs an incredibly complex character, and thatâs exactly what I love about him.
