Sirius was very intrigued about the family history of the House of Black, and would sometimes spend hours talking to his godfather Draco Malfoy, a descendant of the Black family from his mother's side, about the Black Family Tree. For his eleventh birthday, Draco gave him a Cleansweep Twelve, though promised to spoil him with a better broom if he made one of Hogwarts' Quidditch teams.