Alas, I lack a cool header image for this one--clearly figliaperduta, this week's discussion-starter, is not quite as awesome as my partners-in-mischief. So I will clearly have to make up for in substance what I lack in flash.

This week, we turn our minds to a subject that has had quite some attention in fanon, but has been very largely ignored in canon--the relationship between Sirius, Orion (his father), and Arcturus (his grandfather), and the status of the Blacks in society.

( Questions Beneath the Cut! )

ETA: In which we learn that shyfoxling has nothing on me for pedantic [Ed. Oh, really?], and also that I can't LJ-cut worth a damn.