What about Sirius's own house ?

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 76415

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_reader2003" 
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
> --- 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.
> 
SNIP

I assumed that a 17 year old would get his first 'own place' as a 
flat or apartment.  

As for what Sirius meant when he offered Harry to live with him at 
his house that' isn't much'--now THAT I expect may have been 
Grimmauld Place.  Sirius was likley able to find out his mother had 
died and that the house was vancat and that may have been suitable 
with some work for him and Harry to live in.  

Arya