Hey, saw your post about the Blacks living in a muggle neighborhood. One idea I’ve always liked is that this used to be the “get a place of my own” house of a second or third son, perhaps explicitly purchased as a place to… interact with… muggles. Then his eldest brother did something to get blasted off the family tree, which seems to happen at least once per generation, but kept the proper country manor. And so of course the surviving branch gets even more purity and history obsessed…

((OOC: I like it))