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|born=Between [[1920s|1925]] and [[1920s|1929]]<ref>The [[House of Black|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.</ref>
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|born=Between [[1920s|1925]] and [[1930s|1938]]<ref name="birth">The [[House of Black|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 1938.</ref>
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|died=Between Autumn [[1976]] and Autumn [[1977]]<ref name="Bloomsbury">[http://harrypotter.bloomsbury.com/books/glossary/a Harry Potter Glossary] at the [[Bloomsbury Harry Potter website]]: exact quote: ''Sirius Black's uncle who died when Sirius was seventeen, leaving him 'a decent bit of gold'''. Along with the former link, In the F.A.Q. section of J.K. Rowling's Official Site, she stated that Sirius was "around twenty-two" when he was imprisoned in Azkaban. Given that he was imprisoned shortly after 31 October 1981 and attended Hogwarts from 1971 to 1978, Sirius would have been born between 1 September 1959 and 1 November 1959. This means that Alphard, who gave Sirius gold when he was 17, died between his 17th birthday, in late 1976, and his 18th birthday, in late 1977</ref> (aged 38 - 52)
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|house=[[Slytherin]]<ref name="slytherin">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 [[1930s|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.</ref>
  
|house=[[Slytherin]]<ref name="slytherin">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 [[1930s|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.</ref>
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{{Dialogue a-b-a-b|Harry Potter|You ran away from home?|Sirius Black|When I was about sixteen. I'd had enough.|Where did you go?|Your dad's place. Your grandparents were really good about it; they sort of adopted me as a second son. Yeah, I camped out at your dad's in the school holidays, and when I was seventeen I got a place of my own. My Uncle Alphard had left me a decent bit of gold — he's been wiped off here, too, that's probably why — anyway, after that I looked after myself.|[[Sirius Black]] to [[Harry Potter]] in [[1995]].|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}
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'''Alphard Black''' was a [[pure-blood]] wizard, the middle child of [[Pollux Black]] and [[Irma Crabbe]], and brother of [[Walburga Black|Walburga]] and [[Cygnus Black III|Cygnus]].<ref name="BFT" /> He was disinherited and removed from the [[House of Black|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.<ref>''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', US hardback page 111</ref> 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]]".
  
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'''Alphard Black''' (between [[1920s|1925]] and [[1930s|1938]]<ref name="birth"/> — [[1976]]/[[1977]]<ref name="Bloomsbury"/>) was a [[pure-blood]] [[Wizardkind|wizard]] from the noble [[Black family]] and was a [[Slytherin]] student at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]].
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==Biography ==
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Alphard was the middle child of [[Pollux Black]] and [[Irma Crabbe]], and brother of [[Walburga Black|Walburga]] and [[Cygnus Black III|Cygnus]]. He was born sometime after his sister and before his brother<ref name="BFT" /> and grew up in [[12 Grimmauld Place]].<ref>Walburga's portrait states that 12 Grimmauld Place is "The house of my fathers" meaning that her father and his father in turn (and so on and so forth until the line met at Phineas Nigellus Black) owned it; this means that Alphard, like Walburga and Cygnus, would have grown up in the house.</ref>
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[[File:Alphard_2.jpg|thumb|left|Alphard was burnt off from the [[Black family tree tapestry]] after his disownment.]]
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Alphard passed away of unknown causes sometime in [[1976]] or [[1977]]; he was aged between 38 and 52. In his will, he left a "decent amount of gold" to his nephew [[Sirius Black]], who was seventeen at the time.<ref name=Bloomsbury /> He was posthumously disowned and removed from the [[Black family tree tapestry]] by his sister Walburga, and Sirius believed that this act of charity towards him was the reason.<ref>''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', US hardback page 111</ref>
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==Personality==
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Judging from Alphard's action, helping his nephew when he ran away from home, it can be deduced that he was, at the very least, capable of love and fondness; and he might have been kind and compassionate in his life, vastly different from his sister. He did not seem to fear being blasted off the tapestry, indicating that he had a rebellious or brave bone in himself.
   
 
==Etymology==
  
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Like many members of the [[House of Black|Black family]], Alphard is named after a star. [[Wikipedia:Alphard|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".
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Like many members of the [[House of Black|Black family]], Alphard is named after a star. [[Wikipedia:Alphard|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".
   
 
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Revision as of 02:00, 8 April 2014

Harry Potter: "You ran away from home?"
Sirius Black: "When I was about sixteen. I'd had enough."
Harry Potter: "Where did you go?"
Sirius Black: "Your dad's place. Your grandparents were really good about it; they sort of adopted me as a second son. Yeah, I camped out at your dad's in the school holidays, and when I was seventeen I got a place of my own. My Uncle Alphard had left me a decent bit of gold — he's been wiped off here, too, that's probably why — anyway, after that I looked after myself."
— Sirius Black to Harry Potter in 1995.[src]

Alphard Black (between 1925 and 1938[1] — 1976/1977[2]) was a pure-blood wizard from the noble Black family and was a Slytherin student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Biography

Alphard was the middle child of Pollux Black and Irma Crabbe, and brother of Walburga and Cygnus. He was born sometime after his sister and before his brother[3] and grew up in 12 Grimmauld Place.[5]

Alphard 2

Alphard was burnt off from the Black family tree tapestry after his disownment.

Alphard passed away of unknown causes sometime in 1976 or 1977; he was aged between 38 and 52. In his will, he left a "decent amount of gold" to his nephew Sirius Black, who was seventeen at the time.[2] He was posthumously disowned and removed from the Black family tree tapestry by his sister Walburga, and Sirius believed that this act of charity towards him was the reason.[6]

Personality

Judging from Alphard's action, helping his nephew when he ran away from home, it can be deduced that he was, at the very least, capable of love and fondness; and he might have been kind and compassionate in his life, vastly different from his sister. He did not seem to fear being blasted off the tapestry, indicating that he had a rebellious or brave bone in himself.

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".

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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 1938.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Harry Potter Glossary at the Bloomsbury Harry Potter website: exact quote: Sirius Black's uncle who died when Sirius was seventeen, leaving him 'a decent bit of gold'. Along with the former link, In the F.A.Q. section of J.K. Rowling's Official Site, she stated that Sirius was "around twenty-two" when he was imprisoned in Azkaban. Given that he was imprisoned shortly after 31 October 1981 and attended Hogwarts from 1971 to 1978, Sirius would have been born between 1 September 1959 and 1 November 1959. This means that Alphard, who gave Sirius gold when he was 17, died between his 17th birthday, in late 1976, and his 18th birthday, in late 1977
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 Black family tree
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Walburga's portrait states that 12 Grimmauld Place is "The house of my fathers" meaning that her father and his father in turn (and so on and so forth until the line met at Phineas Nigellus Black) owned it; this means that Alphard, like Walburga and Cygnus, would have grown up in the house.
  6. ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, US hardback page 111
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