12 Grimmauld Place

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 95851

One thing I'd like to know is why Sirius had to be on hand at 12 Grimmauld
Place.  From the sounds of it, the place gave him the creeps---sort of like
Castle Dracula but without the laughs.

Had I been Sirius, I'd have first ordered Kreacher to "stay in the cellar
and do not interfere, in any way, with the people who are going to be here"
and then handed D'dore the keys, said "Happy house-cleaning!" and gone off
somewhere warm and tropical.  Having to stay in that house of horrors, month
after month, with Kreacher leering and making snide comments "under his
breath,"and that awful portrait screaming, would have driven me straight
'round the bend, or into the nearest bottle of firewhiskey.