How did Sirius get the Grimmauld Place?

[Beth]

No: HPFGUIDX 131654


I've always wondered if Ma and Pa Black had a change of "heart" about 
Sirius after he was accused of being the #2 dark wizard in the 
country. That seems like something that would make his mother proud, 
although his mother's portrait must have the correct information now. 

Beth
 
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> I suddenly thought about this. How did Sirius really get his 
parent's 
> house?
> 
> Yes, it goes to the last living Black, who was him, but he was 
> disowned. Wiped from the Black family tree. Not to be given a cent 
of 
> their money. Normally, if one is dead and the other disowned 
(meaning 
> he wasn't alive in the first place, in their minds), then shouldn't 
the 
> inheritance go to Narcissa or Andromeda? And if it can be handed 
only 
> to males, shouldn't it all go straight to Draco, the only male left 
> with Black blood?
> 
> I found this puzzling, at any rate.