[HPforGrownups] Re: Fees for Harry

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 179431

> Pippin:
>> If it takes thirty days for a wizarding will to go into effect, then
>> possibly Sirius never became legally Harry's guardian, and Vernon
>> and Petunia were appointed quite legitimately.
>
> lizzyben:
>
> I'm trying to imagine the Dursleys at a wizarding guardianship
> hearing in the MOM, and failing. Yeah, maybe we can construct more
> facts that could possibly make this totally legal & aboveboard, but
> w/the facts we've got it is not. Sirius was the appointed guardian &
> godfather, full stop.

Shelley:
Yes, and let's look at the timing of things. Voldemort murders Harry's 
parents. They find Harry alive, and everyone starts questioning WHY did this 
child live? Dumbledore wracks his smart brain and comes up with Lily's 
sacrifice, and the brilliant blood connection the might still protect Harry. 
He seeks to immediately move on that thought, taking Harry from Sirius and 
putting him in the Dursley home for temporary shelter. Sirius then goes to 
kill Peter and fails, only to be put in jail. The 30 day period comes 
around, and the will is read. But, Sirius can't raise the child while in 
prison, and besides, Harry's currently with other blood relatives. What 
would there even need to be a guardianship hearing at all? No one was 
contesting anything, not Sirius's godfather position, nor the Dursley home 
where Harry was residing for the time. Nothing different needed to be done. 
Only would a contest ensue for Harry's care if Sirius got out of prison and 
then wanted to take Harry away from the Dursleys. That only happens much 
later in Harry's life, only Sirius still ends up on the run and never able 
to offer Harry a proper home, so he never fully attempts to take Harry into 
his home as a son.