OOP: Black Relatives (WAS Re:SPOILERS! My defense of Harry)

[brassgryphon]

No: HPFGUIDX 62408

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> 
wrote:
> Lots of replies on here, all combined.  I think I'm replying to 
Marc (moved from OTChatter), Jenny, Marianne, and Laura.  I think 
that's all.
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> > 5. Does wizard society not have funerals?  Granted, a public 
memorial 
> > for Sirius was out of the question, and there was no body to 
bury, 
> > but is anyone else disturbed that there was not even a mention of 
a 
> > private service for those who knew him?  Wouldn't Harry have 
> > benefitted from something like that rather than grieving by 
himself 
> > at the edge of the lake?
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> I know what you mean, there was no closure there.  Just Harry's 
>private little wake for Sirius by the lake.  Perhaps something like 
>that will come up early in Book 6.  Which leads me to another 
>question.  What about Sirius's house?  Who does it belong to now?  
>As the guy (can't remember his name) in the painting kept reminding 
>us, Sirius was the last of the house of Black.  Would one of his 
>cousins get it?  Or would it go to Harry, since he was his 
>godchild?  Do wizards have wills?

I know that Harry can't stray from Petunia during hols, so certainly 
not him, but did any of you notice? His cousin Andromeda married a 
Muggle-born named *Ted Tonks*. Meaning that Nymphadora is almost 
positively Sirius' cousin-once-removed; maybe she gets the house. If 
she turns out evil, though, we will know JKR has made the full 
transit to sadism. If she's good, though, as is more'n'likely... good 
characters seem prone to nepotism if the relative in question has any 
good qualities at all.

Brass Gryphon