[HPforGrownups] Re: The Order will be moving Headquarters

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 97759

In a message dated 5/5/2004 8:17:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ksargean at gonzaga.edu writes:
> Lady Kate: 
> 
> I have also wondered that with Sirius dead, who would inherit Grimmauld 
Place?
> Would it be Narcissa, and thus by marriage Lucius Malfoy?  That could have 
some
> interesting implications back at Hogwarts.



I'd always just kind of assumed that Harry, as Sirius' godson and 
definitely the person who Sirius favors more than anyone in his own 
biological family, would inherit everything--including Grimmauld 
Place.
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Sherrie here:

IMHO, no one will be inheriting Grimmauld Place - because if Dumbly is as 
smart as he seems, he won't inform anyone of Sirius' death.  IIRC, the ONLY 
people who saw Sirius fall through the Veil were Order members and Bella - everyone 
else was either out of it, or involved in their own little battles.  Bella's 
off with Lord Thingy - and the Order members will, if Dumbledore tells them 
to, keep their lips zipped.  

Not only would a Sirius still legally "alive" moot the question of 
inheritance of #12, leaving the Order free to maintain it as their Super Secret HQ, but 
the continued search for him ("Sirius Black Spotted in Tajikistan!  Details at 
eleven!") would serve as a distraction for Fudge - giving Dumbly a freer hand 
to run the war as he sees fit.  And with the Auror in charge of the search a 
member of the Order, should be a fairly easy thing to keep up the deception 
for a year or so...

Sherrie
(who's been watching too many reruns of THE MAN FROM UNCLE, I think)
"Unless history lives in our present, it has no future." 
PRESERVE OUR CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS!


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