Kreacher and the HBP/ was Re: Kreacher -workable solution?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 129588

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
> First point, I suspect much like inheritence under Common Law, a 
house elfs allegiance doesn't ascend or move sideways, typically it 
will alway decend unless there is no one left. So, to some extent we 
are back to arguing the nature of the inheritance of the Black 
Family Estate.
> 
> I suspect, that since Sirius was the controlling Black decendant, 
that Kreacher's allegiance was automatically transferred to Sirius 
whether Kreacher liked it or not. Now that it has already decended 
to Sirius, it is no longer tranferable up or across the family line. 
> 
snip)

Tonks:
Here is a thought. What if the Half-Blood prince is a decendant of 
the Blacks that we don't know about. A kid about Harry's age or a 
bit older. (Maybe Sirius' brother had a child and Sirius didn't know 
about it. He was in Azkaban all of that time, after all.) The kid 
went to school where the Dark Arts are taught and is an evil person. 
He gets the house and Kreacher. This would be a problem for the 
Order, of course. And these problems in some way lead to the death 
of... ??  And maybe the kid is a challenger for the position of Dark 
Lord.

Tonks_op