The Noble House of Black

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--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Stephanie Roark Keener" 
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> Okay, here's something that's starting to bother me.  (And I am 
> seriously afraid of looking at the main list to see if anyone has 
> posted this, so forgive me if I'm just repeating.)  
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> What with Sirius gone now -- who gets his house?  Obviously, if he 
> has a will, he can leave it to who ever he thinks should have it 
> (Harry?  Lupin?  Dumbledore?).  But, what if he died without a 
will?  
> Furthermore, is the will of an at large prison escapee going to be 
> recognized by the MoM?  His closet living blood relatives on the 
> Family Tree are Bellatrix Lestrange and Narcissa Malfoy.  If the 
> headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix fall into either of these 
> hands (I'm guessing the Malfoy's) that would be disastrous!  
> Hopefully, the fact that Tonks' mother is blasted off of the 
Family 
> Tree won't mean that she can't inherit the house.  
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> Stephanie


Here's another question that is bothering me.  And this may have 
been brought up before.  I understand why there wasn't a funeral 
held.  Sirius still is considered a criminal.  But why wasn't there 
a public notice of his death.  I expected Fudge to capitalize on the 
fact that "one death eater was at least dead."  We all know the 
truth, but Fudge could have manipulated that information to keep his 
public image slightly positive.  Or does Fudge not know about his 
death?

Kris