Lycoris Black

Lycoris Black
Biographical information
Born	1904
Died	1965 (aged 60 - 61)
Blood status	Pure-blood
Marital status	Single
Physical information
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Hair colour	Black
Skin colour	White
Relationship information
Family members	Sirius Black II (father) † Hesper Gamp (mother) Arcturus Black III (brother) † Regulus Black I (brother) † Orion Black (nephew) † Lucretia Black (niece) † Pollux Black (cousin) † Cassiopeia Black (cousin) † Marius Black (cousin) Dorea Potter (cousin) † Callidora Longbottom (cousin) Cedrella Weasley (cousin) Charis Crouch (cousin) † Black family
Affiliation
House	Possibly Slytherin
Loyalty	House of Black

Lycoris Black (1904 – 1965) was a pure-blood witch, the middle child of Sirius Black II and his wife Hesper Gamp and sister of Arcturus Black III and Regulus. Lycoris never married and never had children.

Behind the scenes

• Lycoris Black's likeness on the Black Family Tapestry, as featured in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, seems to have been based on a depiction of a nobleman from the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, currently in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London.
• Based on a statement by Horace Slughorn that all members of the Black family were in his house, Lycoris may have been a member of the Slytherin House. However, she attended Hogwarts c. 1915 - 1922, when Slughorn may not have been Potions Master.
• Lycoris, on the family tapestry in the film adaption of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is depicted like a man rather than a woman.
• It can also be noted that Lycoris's name is similar to her distant relative Licorus Black who appears only on the version of the Black family tree tapestry shown in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Etymology

Lycoris means "twilight" in Greek. This name loosely fits into the Black family tradition of naming people after stars, in the sense that twilight denotes the times of day when the stars first begin to appear, or to disappear. It is also a genus of flowering plants in the Amaryllis family that is associated with death and reincarnation in Chinese and Japanese folklore; another member of family with a name of flower is Narcissa Malfoy. Ovid and Virgil also mention a mistress of Mark Antony called Lycoris. It is also possible that this name was derived from the plant and sweet liquorice. The name is also similar to that of Lycorias, a Nereid (sea nymph) of Greek mythology.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Appears on Black family tapestry)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)