a thought about Grimmauld Place

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 100698

I remember the discussions on this list about Grimmauld Place and the House
of Black and Mrs. Black's portrait's words "begone from the house of my
fathers." The general assumption was that she was a Black cousin and so the
house was her ancestral home as well as her husband's.

I'm rereading OOP right now and I thought, why did we assume the house
belonged to Sirius' father? Simply because of the tapestry? But tapestries
can be moved, rehung, I bet there's one in every Black household. I'd say
Sirius' dad was younger than the Black Sisters' dad/mom (whoever was their
Black parent) and thus it's probably their parents that lived in the
ancestral Black home while Sirius' parents lived in his mother's ancestral
home.

With the Lestranges in Azkaban and Andromeda disowned, I'd say the ancestral
Black manor is in possession of the Malfoys.

Alina.