Inheritance

[mtwelovett]

No: HPFGUIDX 75536

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, B Arrowsmith <arrowsmithbt at b...>
wrote:
> Lots of speculation about Grimmauld Place and will Harry iinherit.
> 
> But everyone seems to have forgotten about Godrics Hollow. Doesn't that 
> belong to Harry now?
> It may be a wreck, but land prices in the southern half of England 
> means that he's rich!
> 
> As he's under age he will have to have a guardian to deal with the 
> legal bits and pieces.
> 
> Who is the guardian? By law it will be Petunia if no other arrangements 
> (legal, not casual), have been made. Even if it was Sirius that now 
> becomes null and void on his death and his heirs cannot inherit a 
> guardianship for a non-family member.
> 
> So just what did happen to it?
> 
> Kneasy



Very interesting thought... Let's think about this some:

Lupin is the last of the remaining close friends of James that we know
about (other than Dumbledore) But at the time of James' death he
apparently thought that Lupin was the spy for Voldermort (POA) since
that was also Sirius' thinking until the Shrieking Shack scene in POA.
It "could" be where he has been staying between jobs, prior to
Grimmauld becoming the home for the order.... 

It would be scary to think of Wormtail as a guardian after his
betrayal of James and Lily and Harry, but would James have specified a
"second" if something had happened to Sirius as well? and would that
be Wormtail? (Shudder to think)

Lily and James were in the order so they must have been close to
Dumbledore on some level overall... he was left James' invisibility
cloak for whatever reason. So he could be keeper of other things as
well, but for whatever reason found he couldn't be guardian.... or did
he? Was he really made Guardian, and because of the circumstances, as
guardian, he decided to appoint another "guardian"? Hmmm
interesting... he is the one in the know, and he is the one that put
the charms that Petunia sealed by accepting Harry on them.... this
could be possible...he seems to be a descision maker for Harry in SS
when McGonagall questions him about weather or not it is wise to leave
Harry with these Muggles....and his regrets speech in OOP may lean
towards this as well... Let's look at some of the others too though.

McGonagall is another possibility, although someone rightly pointed
out in another thread today or yesterday that she is pretty
no-nonsense, and doesn't mince words, and probably wouldn't keep
something like that from Harry, but she may have some vested interest
in Harry since she was there on Privett Drive in the beginning keeping
watch, and is in the order, so was probably closer with Lily and James
 for that reason, not to mention that she may have been their Head of
house at Hogwarts too, since we don't know when she became the head of
Gryffendor house. 

We don't know any of Lily's close friends and I think the speculation
of Alice Longbottom being a close friend of Lily is reasonable,
especially since her close friends might be included in the order as
well. Although Frank and Alice Longbottom are in no condition to be
guardians of Harry although I do like the idea that Alice may be
Godmother to Harry that has been discussed recently. There are other
witches and wizards from the order that we know little of other than
names, and probably some that we don't even know names of, but that
doesn't seem to be something that JK would spring on us in the very
end without having heard of them at all ever. 

There is still the possibility of Mrs Figg being of some more
significant link, since a Squib living that close to the Dursleys and
being of "The Old Crowd" AND a member of the order...there is
definitely more there.(A SQUIB in the order alone raises curiosity) I
had speculated prior to the release of OOP that maybe she was some
"relative" (or rather very old friend of the family that is considered
family) of Lily & Prtunia, I still think this could be a possibility,
but it still creates a sticky situation since if Petunia knew Figgy
was linked to the WW then, would she let Harry stay there on Dudley's
days out? Unless she knew it was the only safe place to leave Harry
when they weren't there...(kind of like her response to the howler in
OOP) (not what I was intending to go into in this post) SO back to the
main point. If Figgy was a member of the Old Crowd, then Lily and
James knew her, and she could be on the guardian list too, and has
also had a hand in overseeing him over the years. 

We don't know what has happened to James' Family. But from all
accounts Petunia is the last of Harry's relatives on his mother's
side. But that may mean immediate relatives, since I think there is
something to the Mark Evans boy too, or else why name him? Especially
Evans.

Have I left out anyone significant? I think the Weasleys aren't part
of this time frame. I can't think if Arthur was in the order the first
time, but we know Molly was not. AND that seems to be some of that
cryptic time with the big gap in the Weasley children's ages. I think
Molly and Arthur are enough older than James and Lily, not to really
know them. But did James have sisters that may have been older that
were maybe in school with the Weasleys? (since OOP implies that Sirius
was "adopted as a Second son" when he left home at 16, but it says
nothing of sisters) I'm on another tangent I know... sorry.    

Whew! I didn't mean for this to get this long, and I don't think
anything got resolved, but it brought up some interesting ideas
anyway.  Anyone have anything to add? 

Mtwelovett