Holy crap, am I seeing that Harry's paternal grandmother (or great-aunt, I guess, but Occam's Razor) was a Black?
ETA: Yes, I think you solved the "but he was burned off the tapestry!" problem nicely. I spent some brainpower thinking about this for a bit last month, and that was a stumper. I'd have thought the estate was entailed, but there must have been a loophole that let it go to Harry as Sirius' heir rather than to someone else with a closer blood-claim. Unless the estate has to pass to a man? Even so it would have been Draco.
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Date: 2009-09-22 03:38 am (UTC)Holy crap, am I seeing that Harry's paternal grandmother (or great-aunt, I guess, but Occam's Razor) was a Black?
ETA: Yes, I think you solved the "but he was burned off the tapestry!" problem nicely. I spent some brainpower thinking about this for a bit last month, and that was a stumper. I'd have thought the estate was entailed, but there must have been a loophole that let it go to Harry as Sirius' heir rather than to someone else with a closer blood-claim. Unless the estate has to pass to a man? Even so it would have been Draco.