[HPforGrownups] Kreacher

[Kathryn]

No: HPFGUIDX 125650


Finwitch
 
Now, where IS this house-elf going to end up?
 
Will it be so that he'll go to Narcissa (family-tie)
or that he will stay (house-tie).
 
I think it is house-tie, or Kreacher would have gone to Malfoys to
stay when Sirius' Mother died.
  

K

I'm actually on the fence as to whether it's a house or family tie, but for
argument sake - perhaps he stayed with the house because the family member
who was next in line (Sirius) wasn't dead just imprisoned. Let's just assume
a family tie for now and see how it might work (I fully admit that if it
turns out to be a house tie then this line of argument won't stand). When
Sirius and Regulus are children he is tied to one or other of the parents.
When the parents die he would go to the eldest child (who by this point is
also the only child as Regulus is dead), but the eldest child (Sirius) is in
Azkaban. Now Kreacher cannot go to Azkaban to serve him so he waits in the
house (which was presumably the only residence owned by Sirius at the time)
until either his master returns or dies, at which time he then passes to the
next family member in line, which would actually depend on which parent he
had been tied to I think. Sirius and Regulus had no children so if Kreacher
was tied to Mr. Black then he would go to the next surviving member on that
side - the oldest of Andromeda, Narcissa or Bellatrix - if it's Mrs. Black
then I don't know who the nearest surviving member would be, given that she
too seemed to be a Black by birth, not just marriage, it might well still be
the oldest of those three. 
 
If he's tied to the House then he will go to whoever owns that, whether it
is Sirius' chosen heir (if he has a legal will somewhere from wither pre or
post Azkaban days) or someone else still remains to be seen - it is after
all entirely possible that the house can only be inherited by certain people


K

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