Uncle Alphard Snape??/What about Sirius's own house ?

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 76291

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> 
wrote:
> Okay, I'm sure I'm way off base, but, what the hell...
> 
> Sirius tells us that his Uncle Alphard left him a "good bit of 
gold," 
> which enabled him to get his own place once he was seventeen.  > 
> (snip)
Marianne

CW writes:

I've always wondered what happened to the place that Sirius bought 
when he was 17. Its the place Harry immediately imagines staying at 
when he leaves the Shrieking Shack with Sirius. Was it confiscated by 
the Ministry after he was sent to Azkaban ? Have his friends (?Lupin?
Dumbledore) been looking after it/living in it ? If it still it 
exists, it would surely have been mentioned as one of the key places 
to watch after Sirius escaped.

We do seem to have a lot of buildings that have mysteriously 
disappeared - Sirius's house, James & Lily's house, James' parents 
house...hmmmmmm