[HPforGrownups] Re: How did Sirius get the Grimmauld Place?

[Juli]

No: HPFGUIDX 131661

Steve/bboyminn:
(snip)
...it would take a legal event of substantial
magnitude to prevent Sirius from having undisputed
claim to the Black Family Estate. Disowned or not
disowned, there would be huge legal precedents in his
favor. There may be legal directives and entailments,
that transend the wishes of the immediate generation
of Blacks.

Jmoses wrote:
I see only one problem with this theory.  I believe
Sirius was a fugitive at the time.  If he was, he
wouldn't have a legal claim to anything.  I believe
that it was more along the lines of he got there first
and hid it.  Please correct me if I'm mistaken.

Juli replies:

The way I see it, only a BLACK could get the Black
Family fortune, as Sirius is the Last Black. You say
that someone may challenge it, say Narcissa Malfoy or
Bellatrix Letrange, they may have Black blood but none
of them are Blacks, they changed their last names, so
legally they aren't Blacks.

Let's think who knows that Sirius' got 12GP: DD and
the OoP, HRH, the Malfoys, the Letrange, and other
DEs, right. If any of them claimed that Sirius had
taken tha Black house and fortune they would be in
trouble with the MoM because: 1) They know where a
fugitive is hidding and they haven't told the MoM, 2)
How did they find out if they aren't on LV's side?.

Sirius may have started to live at 12GP only during
OoP, but he owned it long before that, since his
mother died (8 years ago?) he was the rightful owner
of the Black estate, so why would anyone challenge it
years after that? If Narcissa or Bella wanted the
house they could have challenged it years ago when Mrs
Black died, not now.

Juli

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