Who inherits 12 Gimmauld Place?

[Hagrid]

No: HPFGUIDX 82095

--- "o_caipora" <o_caipora> wrote:
>  "Robert Jones" <jones.r.h.j> wrote:
> > 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.)
> 
> Interesting. IIRC this happens in David Copperfield; his benefactor 
> returns to England in defiance of the terms of his exile, and 
> forfeits his fortune. 
> 
BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT ... the WW despises those Muggle laws. 
That "forfeiting" of property was abused in New England when land 
owning neighbours were accused of being wizards or witches. Even when 
Sirius was a fresh escapee, he could access his Galleons in gringotts 
to buy Harry a Firebolt.

> England has a tradition of primogeniture and male inheritance. 
> Scotland AFAIK has for centuries given greater respect to women's 
> right to inheirit.  
> 
> Two clues ... a) Sirius inherited ...despite his mother's dislike 
> of him, ...she didn't have the power to disinherit; and b) Rowling 
> so carefully showed us that Draco is the closest male heir. 
> 
> She could have had the family tree show Draco as a relative without 
> making him the closest male heir. She didn't. I smell plot twist.

- Or if not the next male, Kretcher's hero, Bellatrix Lestrange may 
move in ...    ~aussie~