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This refers to this post, in which please note that the graphic is now corrected from the first version to appear there.  (No biggie; one dotted line was added, and one number was added so the rest were shifted down.)  If you want to try to fill in ellen_fremedon's family tree yourself, click the thumbnail below but NOT the lj-cut!



And now for the answers ...



As before, click the thumbnail to see the full-sized version, and then probably click again to zoom to actual full size.

Couple of notes:

• Only names actually mentioned in canon are included.  This means that we don't actually know the names of Sirius and Regulus' parents, nor of Fleur Delacour's father, for example.  We don't know Ginny's middle name.  If I'm wrong about this -- if you can quote me scripture revealing these names -- by all means let me know, and I'll amend the chart.
  
• Only people whose names we know (by the above standard) are numbered.  No, I know.  I'll get back to this in a second.
  
• So what are people without numbers doing on the chart?  Well, we can reasonably deduce that they existed -- a person with a mother also has a father, for example -- but we don't know anything else about them.  That is, when we know anything about one parent, the other is included; but if we know nothing about either, then neither is included.  You'll be wondering about the generation above #18.  According to ellen_fremedon, the mother of Sirius and Regulus Black probably married her cousin [whose father was her father's brother]; because she treated the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black as her own ancestral home, it is likely her maiden name was also Black.  No, we don't care what JKR has to say about it, remember?
  
• And what about people whose names we obviously don't know, by the above standard, but who have numbers?  There are three of these, and I think the standard is pretty clear:  we met them (or they were mentioned specifically), but they were not actually named.
  
• Names in square brackets are logical deductions on my part.
  • Nobody should call himself Ted who isn't named Theodore, for example, so I submit that Ted Tonks and his grandson were both named Theodore at least officially.  Ditto Molly < Mary.  And so on.
    
  • It appears to be a wizarding tradition that the father's name be the eldest son's middle name.  Based, I admit, on a sample size of n=4:  Albus Percival, William Arthur, Harry James, and Teddy Remus.  It seems a logical conclusion that other wizards who are eldest sons of wizards -- so, not Ted Tonks and not Severus Snape -- would have the middle names indicated.
• So as you've noticed, I've given the fullest names possible.
  
• I have also hyphenated the names of married women born after about 1965, and of their children.  Just because I did.  :-)

[eta:  Oh, and I've got 'Mrs Black, their mother' before Sirius and Regulus.  Oops.  Look for the fix in the next edition!  [g]]