OoP: Inheritance, Vault 711?

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 66745

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, jennifer.r.junker at w... wrote:
> 
> 
> If Harry inherits, wouldn't that mean that he's been acknowledged 
as 
> Sirius's leagal child?  Could one of his pureblood relatives then 
> seek legal custody?  Oh dear!
> 
> 
> 
> (Jennifer (me): only if he is considered an heir for intestacy 
purposes is
> this a concern- i.e. he would have had to have been legally adopted 
to take
> through intestacy.
> If he is DEVISED the property through a Will- he need not have been 
a child-
> or even a relative of Sirius.  There is of course the slight 
problem that
> he's a minor- and minor's generally can't own property in their own 
name
> (i.e. have to have a legal guardian of the estate or trust set up)- 
this is
> the USA's laws I'm rambling about, however- possibly the UK is 
different.

We've been speculating on what happens to 12 Grimmauld Place.  
Personally, if I inherited it, I'd let the Order use it until Vmort 
was defeated, and then I'd burn the place to the ground... but, 
that's just me.

What about whatever might be lurking in Sirius' Gringotts vault? The 
same issues apply, I'd assume, regarding who would inherit.  But, I 
wonder if there might not be something stored in that vault that 
might play a part in the future. Perhaps something that Harry should 
inherit, or that Sirius was holding for him, but that Harry can't 
receive until he reaches his majority. Or, somehow, the key to vault 
711 (I think that's the number of Sirius' vault as written in UK 
version of PoA) falls into Harry's hands. He doesn't know who's vault 
it is, but, in typical Harry fashion, decides to check it out.  He 
goes to Gringott's, is allowed access to the vault (would the goblins 
let him in just because he had the key...Hmmm), and there he 
discovers...? 

Pure speculation, I know, but I have to do something while I wait for 
Book 6!

Marianne