#hp inheritance

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What do you think of Harry getting Grimmauld Place? I seen quite a few who believe that it should be Draco’s since It’s Draco’s family’s history, Draco’s family tree and Kreacher spent Half Blood Prince going on about how he wanted Draco instead.

I guess my first question would be - how did Sirius get the house in the first place, even after being disowned? It's not a women-can't-inherit thing : Dumbledore says the Blacks traditionally have a male heir, but he's also expecting Bellatrix to just waltz in and claim ownership the second Sirius dies.

(if the House HAD to go to "the next male with the name of ‘Black" - which it doesn't because Harry Potter inherits - then all Draco has to do is start going by Draco Malfoy-Black, and boom it's his.)

Personally I think Sirius' disinheritance must have gotten reversed at some point. Regulus lived a little longer than his father, and by then he'd become disillusioned with Voldemort. He might have felt guilty about what happened to his brother and wanted to make amends, even if only symbolically. Or maybe Walburga heard that Sirius got arrested for being a secret Death Eater and killing muggles, and decided that he was all right after all, and wrote him back into the will.

Magical houses do apparently sometimes reject the people who (on paper) are their rightful owners, which throws an interesting wrench into things. Dumbledore thinks that even though Sirius willed Grimmauld Place to Harry, it's possible the Black properties might have some secret inheritance criteria like "pure blood" built into the protective enchantments. We also know that Umbridge can call herself Headmistresses of Hogwarts all she likes, but the *building* doesn't accept her, and bars her from the headmasters office.

Maybe the godparent/godchild relationship has some sort of intense magical and/or legal significance that means a lot to an old house like Grimmauld place. OR maybe Sirius found a way to hack the wards and convince the house that Harry was his illegitimate son or something. (I like this option because it's funny, and seems a very Sirius sort of solution. After all, he was extremely good at magic. He could have managed it.)

Actually that's not a bad premise for a fic. You could have it so Harry inherits the house in Book 6, and everyone is looking at him sideways because ... the process went so smoothly, the house and the house elf are so perfectly attuned to him, the only way that's magically possible is if he is blood-related to the house's last master. There's a whole genre of fics where it turns out Harry's real father is Snape. Why not Sirius?

But, it does make sense that *in universe* Harry's claim to the house might be considered a little shaky, because it's a Black property and he's not a Black. If Draco wanted make a stink about it... yeah he probably has a leg to stand on, legally. But, post-war Draco would need a really, really good reason to do that. He's not stupid enough to go directly head-to-head with Harry "Chosen One" Potter.

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Lily Evans: Golden Girl or Something Sharper?

📌 A soft disclaimer for Snily and Marauders fans: this isn’t about bashing anyone’s favourite. It’s a perspective—a way of holding the light at a different angle. I say this as someone who once stood firmly on the Snily side, and now simply asks harder questions with quieter hands.

Lily Evans is often portrayed as a paragon of virtue: brilliant, kind, and principled. But beneath the immaculate sheen of this seemingly flawless figure lies a quiet arsenal of emotional precision, silences sharpened to a blade, and decisions that suggest something colder than mere goodness. Was she truly the golden girl of the wizarding world—or someone who curated her own narrative, and cut clean anyone who threatened the edges?

Darling, it’s not a fall from grace if she never planned to descend.

1. The Severus Snape Fallout: More Than a Single Word

The moment Lily walks away from Severus Snape is typically framed as a principled boundary after a grievous insult. And yet, the truth has more layers than a well-enchanted onion.

Snape and Lily were inseparable for years, bound long before Hogwarts sorted them into separate destinies. He was, for a time, her only true confidant.

Her final words to him—"You’ve chosen your way, I’ve chosen mine"—are less a boundary and more a guillotine. No door left ajar. No room for return.

And let’s be clear: this wasn’t after he became a Death Eater. It was before. The slur wasn’t the crime—it was the confirmation.

So no, she didn’t just end a friendship over a word. She ended it because Severus became—publicly—a version of himself she had no desire to explain away. And once her trust cracked, the rest of him fell. Gracefully, but irreversibly.

2. The Petunia Problem: Sisterhood in Ruins

People love to reduce Petunia to just bitter and jealous—but that’s such a convenient myth. She was a child too. And her sister got plucked into a magical destiny while she was left behind in a perfectly ordinary world with no map and no warning.

In a letter to Sirius, Lily notes that Petunia was ���being a bit more pleasant than usual, though she still won’t talk to me directly.” Which reads not as care but condescension—with just a splash of smug.

Lily may have loved her sister, but did she ever truly see her? Validate her? Or was Petunia just part of a life Lily was perfectly happy to outgrow?

And to make matters more theatrical, Lily later brought James into that same household—a man who clashed gloriously with Vernon. Did Lily intervene? Attempt peacekeeping? No record of it. The silence says enough. And silence, in her hands, is never neutral.

The tragedy wasn’t just that Petunia was left behind. It was that Lily didn’t look back—not really. She didn’t throw a rope. She didn’t offer a bridge. She simply kept walking, robes pressed, spine unbent.

3. So Who Is Lily Evans?

To understand Lily is to accept a paradox:

A principled, brilliant, but emotionally exacting woman. Someone praised for her elegance and ethics—yet rarely questioned for her lack of softness once crossed.

She picked the "right path"—and if you didn’t match it, you were cut from the frame.

She loved fiercely, but you had to meet her at the level she deemed acceptable.

For her, forgiveness was not a kindness. It was a credential you had to earn.

Nowhere is this clearer than in her final chapter with Severus. He apologised—honestly, humiliatingly. He waited outside Gryffindor Tower, pleaded, laid bare his regret. And still, Lily never opened the door. Not even a crack. And if that door ever squeaked on its hinges, rest assured she hexed it shut.

Regret, for her, was not a passport. Once crossed, you were disqualified. Permanently.

She saw pain—but unless it matched her internal rubric of morality, she left it untouched. She wasn’t cold, exactly. But she kept her warmth tightly rationed. And heaven help you if you failed her. Because that sort of fall from Lily’s favour? Darling, it’s irreversible—with no parting gift but poise.

Was it grace? Was it pride? Or simply the comfort of always being right?

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Lily Evans isn’t a saint. She’s not a villain either. But oh, she is a masterclass in controlled distance and curated silence. The kind of woman whose restraint stings more than most people’s rage.

She didn’t just live by a code—she monogrammed it, framed it, and ensured no emotion would dare smudge the edges. Not because she was heartless—no, never that—but because she refused to be made messy by someone else’s chaos.

And maybe that’s the truth none of us want to sit with: that the boy who lived owes his life to a woman who loved on principle, but lost on tenderness. That her silence? It wasn’t passive. It was precise.

And it cut deeper than she’ll ever be blamed for.

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If there is to be re-instating going on (which there kinda has to be at this point) if I were to write something with this, I'd like to give that beat to Regulus. It's a nice character beat: we know he regretted everything at the end, and I bet includes what happened with Sirius. Sirius, in the end, was right. That'd be a fun scene to write, Sirius learning Regulus brought him back into the family right before he died. Obviously we don't know anything about Cygnus, maybe he was a cool guy, but we do know he didn't have any problems with Sirius being kicked out the first time (and didn't give him money to live on like Alphard.) Considering Sirius is still a killer in Azkaban at the time of Cygnus' death, and at best would have a very complicated and fraught reputation within the Black family, I don't know why Cygnus would go out of his way to reinstate him, when he could just do nothing and let the property pass to his daughter.

The game for me is to try to find rules that make the (clearly slightly sloppy) worldbuilding fit, which is why I'm saying that it seems cool that the ladies can get the inheritance, Queen Elizabeth style. Bellatrix certainly thinks she's about to inherit even though she's a Lestrange and not a Black, and I'll bet she even tried to access the house ("show up on the doorstep" like Dumbledore says.)

Because at that point, if it was THAT important to have a guy with the surname Black inherit, and Sirius was TRULY disinherited and off the table...

.... then obviously what you do is change all the paperwork so it says "Draco Malfoy-Black"

.... so HE inherits (and consolidates!) everything.

I find the family dynamics interesting Bella seems to still care for Cissy and Andromeda too despite Andromeda becoming a traitor

Sirius on the other hand only care for the Potters as I think he really didn't care much for Regulus (I could be wrong though)

But honestly this has been bugging me but why was Sirius still able to inherit Grimmauld when he was disowned/removed from the tapestry?

How can the Will be written? It wasn't sure he is still part of the family, and he prefers to spend time with the Potters and after their death, wasn't he busy chasing after Peter before being thrown to Azkaban?

Friend, you have set a terrible curse upon me. I went combing through the books to look for any mention of wizarding laws, since we know so terribly little about them, and now I'm sitting on an essay on law in the magical world :(((

As for the rest:

Your guess is as good as mine vis à vis the inheritance of Grimmauld. I went through the conversation that Dumbledore and Harry have in book 6 about it and we learn very little:

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We basically learn that Sirius's will is legally binding because Harry becomes Kreacher's owner, which means that somehow wills in the magical world (or at the very least some wills) are also magically binding.

I also find it interesting that Dumbledore seems very sure that:

There's a separate enchantment on Grimmauld to prevent it from being owned by non-purebloods

The ownership of Grimmauld has passed onto Bellatrix.

We are generally supposed to take Dumbledore's word as law so it's interesting that he's proven wrong and Bellatrix isn't the rightful owner. I get the vague sense that Dumbledore didn't put much faith in Sirius's abilities and partly added enchantments to Grimmauld because of that.

Also, it's never proven conclusively wether said anti non-pureblood enchantments even exist.

As to the matter of Sirius's will, I find this passage from book 3 to be interesting:

To me, this reads like Harry's parents appointed Sirius as Harry's guardian on top of him being made godfather, not as part of it; mayhaps as part of a will?

It's not unreasonable, they did know they were being haunted, and perhaps this also helps us establish when Sirius's will was also made. I can imagine Sirius making (or amending) his will as a consequence of the Potters' will, especially since this likely happens after Regulus died and he also knows Grimmauld is likely to pass onto him.

Just throwing this out there, idk.

Changing subjects completely, these are the only times Sirius talks about his brother:

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I think Sirius's words are vague enough that you can read them pretty much however you please. I get the vague impression that Sirius himself is not sure how he feels about his brother but he recognizes that Regulus behaved they way he did in order to please their parents (and perhaps to compensate for Sirius's own unwillingness to uphold the family ideals).

I also went looking for proof that it was Sirius who kept Regulus's room unchanged once the order moved into Grimmauld, since it's a popular fandom assumption, and the books say nothing on the subject. I honestly think it's more likely that Kreacher is the reason why the room was kept as is but that is just pure conjecture.

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lyra kane everybody (shes so me)

[janeiscompletelyfine]

Live Aid

Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh this is not a drill

LIVE AID! Which is amazing enough by itself but guess when it took place?

IT WAS IN 1985!

THAT MEANS THAT THE GOLDEN ERA KIDS WOULD HAVE GOT TO SEE IT ON TELEVISION DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I WOULD PAY OR WHAT SKETCHY ALLEY DEALS ID MAKE TO BE ABLE TO SEE THAT CONCERT AHHHHHHHH

The connections are ASTOUNDING I am CONTEMPLATING I am CONSIDERING I am so so excited about this. So have some 5-year-old Harry watching Queen perform at Wembley Stadium in Live Aid *I'm actually crying I'm not okay.* 6:41 PM on Saturday, July 13, 1985. The Dursleys are in the other room maybe putting Dudley to bed and Harry is alone and this is life-changing.

Sorry about the shadows and quality again!

[rewritingcanon]

me re-reading my own fic that has over 100 kudos: erm… ok… that was something!! (i hate it so fucking much why do people like that i need to delete everything i have written)

me re-reading my own fic that has … like… 5 kudos: this.. is. a MASTERPIECE. (im genuinely an underrated genius trusttt meee)

[justhereforsomethingnice]

Fleamont Potter: *comes into a naga creature inheritance*

Naga: *there to support the new member of his species*

Fleamont: and I was so shocked too. I’m like bald everywhere now. I’m so glad I kept the hair on my head and eyebrows!

Naga: *humming with a nod* yesss, it’s the snake part of us. You’ll likely go bald soon.

Fleamont: WHAT!!!

3 months later

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[salmonight]

Touch my chicks and you are ROAST (literally 🔥)

Draco awakens his creature inheritance on his 14th birthday. It's a great news right?

For him and his housemates? Definitely. For anyone else? They find out pretty fast it is very much not.

As it turns out Draco is a very fierce and very temperamental flying chicken (Veela) who promptly adopted all the Slytherin lower years as his 'chicks'.

He would go into an absolute feral rage if ANY of them were hurt and deal with the preparators with no mercy or whatsoever. Let's also be said that Veelas are very, very vengeful creatures.

So as it should be other houses would learned very quickly that hurting one of the lower year Slytherins are a serious health hazzard (for them) and need to be avoided like the plague if they didn't want a pissed of pureblood or worse... a floff with anger issues and very sharp talons and instant combustion abilities out for their blood.

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the best thing about jegulus takes place a good 20 years in the future actually. because if we're going canon here and harry ends up dating ginny we can pull out the "aww he's just like his father, dating his best friend's younger sibling!" but alternatively if harry pulls up dating draco, we get to pull out the equally funny "aww he's just like his father, dating a 'redeemed' member of the Black family!". i find both of these options very entertaining

[detherun]

Fun Fact: When He is extremely upset, crazy or Furious, He usually speaks in Spanish and forgets to speak in English...

(Although he hardly shows that side...)

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The Role of Pride in Lily Evans’ Unforgiving Nature—Was It Principle, Ego, or Both?

📌 A gentle note for Snily and Marauders fans: this isn’t an attack—it’s an examination. I say this as a former Snily loyalist turned emotionally weathered centrist. This piece is not here to villainise or romanticise, but simply to trace the weight of choices that never got buried with their makers.

This piece is a direct extension of "Lily Evans: Golden Girl or Something Sharper?"—because darling, some women don’t just close the chapter, they seal it with wax and walk off the page.

Lily Evans is often described as principled. And oh, how lovely that sounds in theory. But when we examine her choices—who she forgave, who she didn't, and the emotional calculus behind it all—what emerges isn’t just moral clarity. It’s curated boundaries, polished silence, and pride dressed head to toe in virtue.

1. The Unforgivable Apology: When Regret Wasn’t Enough

Severus Snape apologised. Earnestly. Desperately. He waited outside Gryffindor Tower, laid bare his guilt, asked for forgiveness—not once, but repeatedly. (Darling, he was practically on emotional bended knee.)

Lily never opened the door. Not metaphorically, and not literally. Because why settle for closure when you can have a cold, gilded lock?

The world often applauds her for drawing the line, for protecting her worth. But there’s a difference between setting boundaries and monogramming them into stone. For Lily, once her pride was pierced—once someone she trusted made her feel wrong for trusting them—there was no path back. No redemption arc. No middle act rewrites.

She didn’t cut people off. She shut them out, and sealed the entryway behind her with grace so elegant it could pass for sainthood. And saints don’t look back. Not when the lighting is better from the pedestal.

This wasn’t about the word Mudblood. It was about the humiliation of having once vouched for someone who later proved her wrong. Severus didn’t just fail her standards—he embarrassed her taste. And Lily? She was not a woman who tolerated emotional misalignment in public.

So she did what any refined girl in control would do: she vanished, left the guilt in his hands, and never gave him a chance to return them.

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2. Petunia Evans: The Sister Who Wasn’t Worth the Bridge

Lily’s pride wasn’t reserved for friendships. It ran thick through her family too.

Petunia was jealous, yes—but she was also a girl left behind in a world that no longer made room for her. Lily could see her sister’s discomfort. She could have explained, softened, reassured. She didn’t.

In canon, Petunia’s bitterness is dismissed as petty. But Lily’s aloofness never helped. Even years later, Lily writes in a letter to Sirius that Petunia "was being a bit more pleasant than usual, though she still won’t talk to me directly." There’s no warmth there—just polite distance.

And when Lily brought James into their home—a boy who sneered at Vernon and represented everything Petunia had grown to resent—Lily didn’t intervene. She didn’t apologise. She let the tension sit, perfectly composed.

If Severus failed her morally, Petunia failed her socially. And Lily’s response in both cases? Silence. Just long enough for the wound to scar over.

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3. Forgiving James Potter: The Selective Mercy

The greatest contradiction in Lily’s story is this: the boy who bullied her closest friend—who mocked Severus publicly, gleefully, and often—was not only forgiven. He was loved.

Did James change? Arguably, yes. But Severus also changed. He tried to come back. He apologised. He regretted in a way James never publicly did. He asked for mercy Lily never extended.

And yet, Lily chose James.

Why?

Perhaps because she needed a new narrative. Severus was a story of disappointment. James became the story of potential. And Lily, above all, chose to believe in the version of someone who hadn't failed her personally.

Was it principle? Or was it pride in refusing to look back?

She didn’t just forgive James—she allowed herself to forget. His bullying, his arrogance, the way he laughed while Severus burned—all smoothed over by a present she preferred to the past.

Severus reminded her of a misjudgement. James offered her a chance to never admit she made one.

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Grace, Guilt, and the Unsent RSVP

Lily Evans wasn’t cold. She was curated. Proud enough to walk away from anyone who couldn’t keep up with the version of themselves she’d approved, and polished enough to make it look like emotional maturity.

She loved James not because he was perfect—but because he wasn’t Severus. No inconvenient history. No public regret. Just a new story she could spin without ever citing her sources.

She left Petunia not because she was cruel—but because she refused to carry someone else’s bitterness in her handbag. (It didn’t match the robes, darling. She’d already curated the guest list, and neither Petunia nor the one in patched Slytherin black made the cut.)

And she never forgave Severus—because doing so would’ve meant admitting she had once misjudged, once invested wrongly. And that sort of vulnerability? Lily didn’t do clearance sales.

That’s not just principle. That’s ego in silk gloves.

And in Lily Evans’ world, they weren’t just dressed the same—they shared a wardrobe.

But what Lily likely never imagined—darling, what she never planned for—is that one day, the weight of all this curation would land on someone else. That Harry, her child, would inherit not just the love that protected him, but the bitterness that never got resolved. That he’d grow up with the only living relative she’d silently written off. That he'd arrive at school to find a professor who loathed him on sight—not for anything he did, but for the unresolved wreckage she left behind.

And Harry? He just blinked. And bore it. And kept going.

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Related post: Lily Evans: Golden Girl or Something Sharper?

[aeligsido]

YOU KNOW WHAT. In insight Harry calling Remus out for trying to run away from his wife and child in DH is pretty funny when you consider that Harry:

→ dramatically ran away at the beginning of PoA;

→ 1) thought about running away and 2) was in the process of packing up to run away during OotP (first after the Dementors second after Arthur's attack) and both time had to be told/ordered to stay put bc people knew he would try to run away;

→ was literally planning to go off Horcruxes hunting on his own until Hermione and Ron (figuratively) grabbed him by the ear and told him "not even in your dreams, idiot".

Need one to know one etc.

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The grandest games

(Grayson and Phone Girl musts)

Phone girl better not have red hair any other color is fine but red is a huge NO

She and Grayson better have like an enemy-to-lovers/opposites-attract kind of relationship.

I want it to be a bit of a slow burn I NEED a build-up on this romance. (He always falls too quick.)

I also don't want him to know it's her at first (heck I don't even want to know it's her at first)

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mr hands core

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𝜗𝜚 this valentine's day, ode to the couples that couldn't be-