OOP: SPOILERS: Sirius/legal things/beheadings

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 65791

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a14fiesta" 
<bravo.smethurst at n...> wrote:
> I was just wondering who will be Harry's guardian now that Sirius 
> has gone (in PoA, Sirius tells Harry that James and Lily appointed 
> him guardian in case anything happened to them, as well as 
> godfather). Harry is still underage, so I suppose he needs a 
> guardian If Sirius left a will, who would he appoint? I'd like to 
> think it would be Lupin, but am not sure a werewolf is a reliable 
> choice! 

I'd like to think so, too, but I'm sure there's some MoM regulation 
that prohibits werewolves to act as a child's guardian.

> And what happens to Sirius's property: there's Grimmauld Place, the 
> money in his vault - and what about the house he said he bought 
when 
> he was 17 (not to mention the flying motorbike...) Again, if he 
made 
> a will, I like to think he'd help Lupin out. If there's no will, I 
> suppose it goes to his cousins, but I don't like the thought of the 
> Malfoys getting their hands on it!

The whole issue of the Black property continues to interest me.  
Sirius is the owner, as he is the last surviving member of the 
family.  But, when he ran away from home and Mum blasted him off the 
family tapestry, did his parents not disown him?  It would strike me 
that since he turned his back on them that they would have made sure 
that he would inherit nothing of the family property, even once his 
brother was killed.  But, maybe not.  Maybe at that point Sirius was 
put back in the will just because his parents wanted a direct 
descendent to inherit, even if he was a blood traitor.

So, what does happen now with the property?  What if Sirius died 
intestate? Can someone else on the Black family tree inherit it?  How 
will they find it, since it's Unplottable? Somehow I like the vision 
of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy wandering up and down the street 
muttering, "It's got to be here somewhere!" as members of the Order 
watch them from the windows.

And on a slightly more gruesome legal note, do you think other 
pureblood families beheaded their elderly house elves, or was Aunt 
Elladora a special case?

Marianne