CHAPDISC: DH25, Shell Cottage

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 184012

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
> > Montavilla47:
> > I think this would depend on the original contract. snip
>   Maybe it was only for life that Godric Gryffindor leased the 
sword. 
> > We don't really know, do we?
> 
> Potioncat:
> I don't know if the British ran into this, but on this continent--
> (oh, yeah, we were the British) the Native Americans had a very 
> different slant on land ownership than the Europeans did. Certainly 
> in the beginning sharing the land meant something very different to 
> them than to the Europeans. 
> 
> I had the feeling that Goblins truly have a different slant on 
> ownership than wizards do; and honestly felt cheated. (Although 
you'd 
> think by now they'd have caught on.)
>

Jack-A-Roe:
I think the goblins system is closest to the sale of land. Did you 
buy all of it? Or did you not get the mineral or water rights. Do you 
own the airspace above it.

It seems like the goblins believe that they haven't given up the 
entire object and expect to get it back. Kind of like selling the 
mineral rights to your land and after who you sell it to is done 
mining, the land is completely yours again.