Alphard Black

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Alphard Black

Biographical information
Born	Between 1925 and 1929^[1]
Died	before 1996
Blood status	Pure-blood^[2]
Physical description
Species	Human^[2]
Gender	Male^[2]
Skin colour	White
Family information
Family members	Pollux Black (father)^[2] Irma Crabbe (mother)^[2] Walburga Black (sister)†^[2] Cygnus Black (brother)^[2] Orion Black (brother-in-law/second cousin)†^[2] Druella Rosier (sister-in-law)^[2] Sirius Black (nephew)†^[2] Regulus Black (nephew)†^[2] Bellatrix Lestrange (niece)†^[2] Andromeda Tonks (niece)^[2] Narcissa Malfoy (niece)^[2]
Affiliation
House	Slytherin^[3]
Loyalty	House of Black (disowned)^[2]
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Alphard Black was the middle child of Pollux Black and Irma Crabbe.^[2] He was disinherited and removed from the Black Family tree by his sister, Walburga Black, for giving "a decent amount of gold" to his nephew Sirius Black, who was disowned and disinherited after running away from home at the age of sixteen.^[4] This may indicate that Alphard did not hold blood purity to be of great importance, the way most of his family members did, considering that the rest of the Blacks shunned Sirius for being a "blood traitor". Alphard never married, or had children.

[edit] Etymology

Like many members of the Black family, Alphard is named after a star. Alphard is the brightest star in the constellation Hydra, and is known as the heart of the serpent. Its name is derived from the Arabic فرد|الفرد (Al Fard), meaning "the solitary one".

[edit] Appearances

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)

[edit] Notes and references

↑ The Black family tree does not show Alphard's date of birth, but it does show that he was born sometime after his sister Walburga, in 1925, and before his brother Cygnus, in 1929.
↑ ^2.00 ^2.01 ^2.02 ^2.03 ^2.04 ^2.05 ^2.06 ^2.07 ^2.08 ^2.09 ^2.10 ^2.11 ^2.12 ^2.13 ^2.14 ^2.15 Black family tree
↑ In Chapter 4 of Half-Blood Prince, Horace Slughorn states: "The whole Black family had been in my house, but Sirius ended up in Gryffindor!" This implies that all Blacks except Sirius were Sorted into Slytherin while Slughorn was Head of House. Alphard, born sometime between 1925 and 1929, would have attended Hogwarts in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and thus would have been a student of Slughorn, who was stated to have begun teaching at Hogwarts around the same time as Albus Dumbledore in Chapter 5 of Half-Blood Prince, in 1938 or earlier. Sirius Black also states "My whole family have been in Slytherin" and in Chapter 23 of Deathly Hallows, confirming that at least those Blacks closely related to Sirius were in Slytherin.
↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, US hardback page 111

[0] The Black family tree does not show Alphard's date of birth, but it does show that he was born sometime after his sister Walburga, in 1925, and before his brother Cygnus, in 1929.

[BFT-1] 2.00 ^2.01 ^2.02 ^2.03 ^2.04 ^2.05 ^2.06 ^2.07 ^2.08 ^2.09 ^2.10 ^2.11 ^2.12 ^2.13 ^2.14 ^2.15 Black family tree

[slytherin-2] In Chapter 4 of Half-Blood Prince, Horace Slughorn states: "The whole Black family had been in my house, but Sirius ended up in Gryffindor!" This implies that all Blacks except Sirius were Sorted into Slytherin while Slughorn was Head of House. Alphard, born sometime between 1925 and 1929, would have attended Hogwarts in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and thus would have been a student of Slughorn, who was stated to have begun teaching at Hogwarts around the same time as Albus Dumbledore in Chapter 5 of Half-Blood Prince, in 1938 or earlier. Sirius Black also states "My whole family have been in Slytherin" and in Chapter 23 of Deathly Hallows, confirming that at least those Blacks closely related to Sirius were in Slytherin.

[3] Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, US hardback page 111

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