GH did not belong to Potters? WAS:No canon!! Re: Dumbledore in Gryffindor?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 144569

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kibakianakaya" <ldorman at r...>
wrote:
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> Amiable Dorsail:
> <SNIP>
> > I missed something.  How do we know Godric's Hollow didn't 
> > belong to the Potters?
> > 
> > 
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> Lana (kibakianakaya)writes:
> Its not in canon, but if James and Lily owned Godric's Hollow, 
> then Harry would be the current owner.  So unless the elder 
> Potters left it specifically to someone else, we can deduce 
> that they were never the rightful owners.
> 
> This is my first post - hope the formatting is OK!
>

bboyminn:

First as others have pointed out, this discussion refers to the
/house/ in Godric's Hollow that the Potters were living in. And no,
there really is nothing to indicate that this was the Potter's
ancestral home, or for that matter, that it was even James and Lily's
house. 

For all we know so far, it was just a place they were staying.

Now, the reason we don't know is either completely insignificant, or
it is extremely significant. I suspect the next book will let us know.
  We will either find out significant details when Harry visits, or
the whole matter will be swept under the rug.

But that does bring up a problem. Where is the Potter's ancestral
home? It must have been somewhere. They were moderately well off, and
it seems reasonable that people with that financial status would
logically own a home. So where is it?

Again, either JKR is delaying telling us because it is extremely
significant, or because it is completely insignificant. JRK has said
that the senior Potter's (Harry's grandparents; James parents) were
not important to the plot. Since they weren't, she simply had them die
off of natural causes to get them out of the picture. This does lend
some weight to the property also not being significant. One possible
explanation is that James simply converted the entire Potter Estate
into cash, thinking cash on hand was better than unused property. 

Perhaps... just perhaps, the Potters land and real estate will pass
into Petunia's hands if and when Harry comes of-age. Perhaps, it is
their reward for taking care of Harry, and certainly reason enough not
to mention it to him.

Just a few thoughts.

Steve/bboyminn