Sirius important to the plot...prediction for books 6&7

[dorapye]

No: HPFGUIDX 96046

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wrote:
SNIP! So....I'm hoping Harry gets Grimmauld Place for 
> himself,(since the last Black is dead, they can finally unstick 
the 
> portrait of Sirius's mum, and remove the other foul items) and 
> continues to let the Order use it as their meeting place, but that 
it 
> will be slipped to LV where it is (on purpose by Kreacher...they 
will 
> give him sort of permission to tell Narcissa?) at or near the end 
of 
> book 7 and that Grimmauld Place might be the final battle ground. 
Why 
> do I believe this? I don't know...it seems to me that maybe Harry 
> will finally feel he has a place that is finally HOME, and will 
want 
> to fight fiercly protect it, and will feel a lot of LOVE and 
fondness 
> for it, since Sirius had offered it to him,... and Sirius was his 
> parents best friend.
> 
SNIP
dorapye:

Are you really sure that Harry would even *want* to live in 12 GP? 
Although he preferred to be there rather than with the Dursleys, 
this is harly a glowing recommendation.  

Harry wanted to be with Sirius and the Weasleys, yet when he lived 
with them at 12 GP, he didn't exactly have a ball, and I'm not 
referring to the housework he was pressganged into: the atmosphere, 
tinged with Sirius's bitter resentment, frustration and general 
gloominess, left Harry feeling guilty and eager to get away and back 
to Hogwarts. 

On top of that, Mrs Weasley was clearly beginning to do his head in, 
and her loud disagreements with Sirius (and her below the belt 
remarks about Azkaban) added to Harry's discomfort.

At the end of the book, in DD's office, when DD "tells all" and 
Harry has his chance to rant at him, Harry likens Sirius's 
imprisonment at 12 GP to his own at the Dursley's:

"You made him stay shut up in that house and he hated it, that's why 
he wanted to get out last night -"
"I was trying to keep Sirius alive," said Dumbledore quietly.
"People don't like being locked up!" Harry said furiously, rounding 
on him.  "You did it to me all last summer -"

Nah, I don't reckon Harry'd want 12GP even if it was offered to 
him.  It's link to Sirius is hardly going to recall happy memories 
of his godfather; it's not a fitting memorial to the man who 
couldn't wait to escape from there as a teenager and sank into a 
morbid depression when he was compelled to return 20 years later.

And, although we know that Sirius is the last member of the family 
to carry the 'Black' name, he is not the last 'blood' relative. It 
may be that the 'Black Family Home' is not a legacy which can be 
bequeathed outside the family.

It would seem that that honour goes to Bellatrix (family trees show 
siblings in birth order, left to right).  And if her DE 'fugitive' 
status bars her from the inheritance (it didn't bar Sirius, 
remember?) the next in line would be Andromeda and her daughter 
Tonks.

I'd like Sirius to leave Harry his other home, the one he bought 
when he was 17, with his inheritance from Uncle Alphard.  This would 
move the story onward and give Harry and the readers further insight 
into the young man that Sirius became after leaving Hogwarts, and 
his relationships with James and Lily whilst working for The Order 
in VW1. Much more interesting.

Alternatively, Sirius may leave that property to the needy, homeless 
Lupin (Harry is wealthy in his own right, after all).
And what will Harry have to remind of his beoved godfather?  Why, 
the flying motorbike, of course!

dorapye, hoping that Sirius's other home was within striking 
distance of Godric's Hollow