Who inherits 12 Gimmauld Place?

[Robert Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 82084

It is not at all obvious who gets 12 Grimmauld Place now that Sirius 
has died.  He may have made a will, but in the Potterverse it may 
matter that he was in Azkaban.  Maybe the property of condemned 
prisioners goes to the Ministry.  (In colonial New England, the laws 
of England of the time applied, and the property of executed 
prisoners was forfeited to the colony.)

If the MoM doesn't get the property and Sirius didn't leave a will, 
what laws of inheritance apply?  Not the Laws of England but the 
Laws of Rowling -- JKR may have some clever and funny law of 
intestate succession in mind for the Wizarding World.

It is also not obvious that the MoM even knows Sirius is dead.  
Cornelius "I won't believe it unless it is shoved in my face" Fudge 
didn't see Sirius at all.  He wasn't in that area of the MoM when 
Sirius was fighting and died.  And we don't know what DD is going to 
tell Fudge about what happened since that would be revealing the 
names of some of the members of the Order.  And we don't know if the 
Death Eaters are talking or whether they will be believed.

Bobby Jones