#12 Grimmauld Place - Speculate - OOTP

[kamion53]

No: HPFGUIDX 186042

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "wildirishrose" <wildirishrose at ...> wrote:
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> A few years later.  Would the OOTP still be in operation?  I can't imagine the Order continuing on.  After all, the main person they were out to defeat was now dead.  Course all couldn't be wonderful and safe in the WW.  There still had to have been evil still out there.  Not necessarily LV evil, but people up to no good just the same.  Or would have Aurers have that covered.
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> Any speculation that Harry set up housekeeping at #12 Grimmauld Place after the Battle of Hogwart's?  He did inherit it from Sirius.  Maybe it reminded Harry of too many bad things and he let the house be and it fell apart from lack of care.  Or maybe he sold it.  If the OOTP still existed, maybe it continued to be headquarters for the OOTP?
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> Would Ginny be willing to set up housekeeping there?  Raise their children there?  I was under the impression that the entire house was pretty gloomy, even though the OOTP did clean it up.  Plus it had some Black family stuff that would not come off the walls.  That would not be cheery to have around.
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> What about Kreacher?  Harry did send him off to Hogwart's to work in the kitchen.  Did Kreacher come back into Harry's service as a free elf?  I can't imagine Harry keeping him enslaved.
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> Mariane
> A friend will bail you out of jail
> A true friend will be sitting in the cell next to you saying:
> "We screwed up, but it was fun."
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I think the most logical situation is that Harry moved into nr.12 Grimmault Place. 
First: it's his and he wouldn't disrespect the memory of Sirius by throwig the house away or sell it to the next bidder.
Second: moving into the Burrow, would have the warmt but also the control of Molly Weasley breathing in his neck. I think she rigourly defend the virginity of her only daughter, knowing very well from which stock Ginny comes. And canon believing we may espect more from the relation of Harry and Ginny then just holding hands in the sunset.
Third: Harry starts as Auror the same summer and hates Apparating, Portkeys and isn't very fond of the Floo too. I would not be surpriced he takes the Tube to work.

After some time Ginny probably will move in, it is a large house and also potential a pleasant one with a house elf who likes his master. 

The only downside of it that nr.12 Grimmault Place is only inside and with three children growing up there is no space for them to play, run or fly around outside. Would be a little strange for the neighbours that a house that doesn't exist suddenly sprouts three twerps on broomsticks chasing the neighbour stray cats.
( makes me wonder where did Regulus Black practice his flying skills)

I think the Potters will do what a lot of city folk do or aspire when having kids growing up: they move to the countryside as there is not such a thing as a Wizard Suburbia.  In Harry's case that would be one of the Wizard tolerant villages and I think Tinsworth is a likely candidate.
It's there were he found a period of safety and relax, where Godric's Hollow is a place of bad memories. Maybe they keep nr. 12 Grimmault Place as a winterresidence, when the weather makes a coastal place like Tinsworth pretty misserable.