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Contents 1 DOB Discrepancy 1.1 Middle name 1.2 Clean Up 1.3 Headmaster's portrait

[edit] DOB Discrepancy

took me forever to spell check discrepancy. anyways I thought I'd let anyone interested know that I've been fixing the Genealogical Math of the Blacks and noticed the BIG screwup with the last three children of Mister Phineas Nigellus Black here. the children are apparently born in this order:

• Sirius
• Phineas
• Cygnus
• Belvina
• Arcturus

But here's them in order of their D.O.B.s (Date of Birth's) given:

• Sirius, 1877
• Phineas, Second (no date given)
• Arcturus, 1884 (Remember he is supposed to be the last-born)
• Belvina, 1886 (And here's the screw-up, Belvina's older than Arcturus but born after him?)
• Cygnus, 1889 (What but Cygnus is the Third-Born, that's very peculiar)

So you can see we have a pretty big mess up here, At first I thought maybe Arcturus was actually born in 1894 and Belvina in 1896 but that only fixed the problem with Cygnus and still made Arcturus born before Belvina, so now on my personal family tree (my personal HP family tree of course, I am not a Black, LOL!) I just randomly gave Arcturus the DOB of 1896 and Belvina 1894, BUT I would like to see an official correction of this, you know how awesome would it be if we could get Mrs.Rowling to sit down someday if a Proffesional Geneologist and make like a supplement or something, maybe an E-Book IDK, anyways I just thought I'd make people aware of this issue, as an avid HPologist (lol, HPologist, I like that) This is a very big deal for me. signed, 18:00, 6 July 2008 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by SilverSword (talk • contribs).

[edit] Middle name

Isn't Nigellus his middle name? If so the article should be moved to Phineas Black in accordance with the naming policy. Jayce ^{•Avada Kedavra•Crucio•Imperio•} 09:25, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

The fact that he was called "Phineas Nigellus" quite frequently leads me to believe that he had two first names, like Sarah Jessica Parker, Haley Joel Osment, Mary-Kate Olsen, Billy Bob Thorton, Billy Ray Cyrus, etc. Other characters were only called by both their first and middle names in special circumstances: Harry, Ron, and Hermione are called by their full names in Dumbledore's will, presumably for legal reasons, and Albus Potter gets called "Albus Severus" when his father is trying to make a point about him being named after Snape. ★ Starstuff ^{(Owl me!)} 11:09, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Clean Up

I did some major work on this page. The last person who edited didn't know much about wiki templates or spell check. --Parodist 21:40, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Headmaster's portrait

"To have a magical portrait in the office one must be Head at the time of his or her death" - where does it say that?

It can be inferred by the fact that Severus Snape's portrait was not in the Headmaster's office at the time of his death because he abandoned the post before he died. --Parodist 17:30, September 19, 2009 (UTC)