Drabble: A Matter of Appearances

[attackfish]

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A Matter of Appearances

Black Sentenced to Azkaban The newspaper headline proclaimed, and Walburga scanned the first line, chest fluttering.  Notorious mass murderer Sirius Black was sentenced to life in the Wizarding prison yesterday evening...

Her firstborn was a credit to the family after all.

She pulled out a peace of parchment and wrote the letter needed to re-inherit her son.

With both her sons disgraced, for the right reasons, she could bear her own disgrace and wile away her remaining years knowing she raised them well.

And even if Sirius couldn't touch a knut of it in Azkaban, it was the appearances that mattered.

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[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Wait, the Wizarding World has any hope of functioning as a just society? that's news to me. They don't go in for due process at all. (sorry, that's just snark) Dumbledore didn't seem much worried about the actual law but about the possibility that the magic in the house itself might consider Bellatrix its owner. The Blacks don't strike me as a family that cares much about legalities. Dumbledore might have been worried that they cast some sort of spell on the house that determines the heir regardless of the law. My theory is that while such a thing was not the case, Dumbledore might not have known Walburga re-inherited Sirius and feared that such a spell was the reason he had.

Or it could all be a case of Did Not Do Research on Ms. Rowling's part. But even if it is, that doesn't mean I can't try to explain it.