[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius' heir and Kreacher - there's a will and a way

[Kathryn]

No: HPFGUIDX 125670


 antoshachekhonte 

Being guilty of a crime has no bearing on the legality of a will. Sirius
didn't lose his right to
the Black family estate when he went to Azkaban, therefore he would have
been entitled to
dispose of it--and its belongings (including the despised Kreature, much to
Hermione's
disgust)--as he saw fit.
 
No, the problem has more to do with proving he died. Though Kingsley and
Tonks were
there as credible witnesses, if it comes to that.
 
Kreature is bound to the house, not the owner (though the bind is clearly a
loose and
chaffing one). Therefore, the house elf would (if still alive) move with the
house into the
possession of Sirius's heir: most likely Harry, Remus or Tonks, if he left a
will, and Bellatrix
Lestrange if he didn't. So the Kreature Problem must be dealt with in HBP,
one way or
another....
 
 
 K

The problem with presenting the will before he is cleared comes not from it
s legality or otherwise (I agree it would be perfectly legal) but from the
fact that whoever witnessed it and/or is keeping hold of it would be
admitting that they knew Sirius' whereabouts for at least some of the time
and didn't turn him in. I'm fairly certain that hiding an excaped convict is
a crime.

And we don't *know* that Kreacher is bound to the house rather than the
family - that's a theory not a canonical fact.

K 

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