Author: askwhathasthiscometo

((OOC: Okay so we’re listening to the Harry Potter audio books on this trip and we just started Order of the Phoenix and came to the part where Molly tries to get rid of the boggart that keeps turning into her family members but dead. And something really sad hit me.

Imagine that this is what a boggart turns into in front of you. And at some point you accept that you might randomly see your loved ones sprawled on the floor in places where a boggart would move in, but as soon as you say “riddikulus” it turns into something hilarious and the sad image is gone.

Then one day you come home and there, in the middle of the living room, is your SO laying on the floor starring wide eyed at the ceiling and you sigh and shout through the house; ‘when did a boggart move in?’. You take out your wand, picture the hilarious image, but when you say “ridikkulus” – nothing happens.))

According to JKR one of Sirius ancestors thought the building was pretty and therefore bought it. However this makes no sense considering the ugly thing in the movies

I mean if we scratch the movies but still consider it as a terrace building in a part of London that quickly became a working class neighborhood it could have been nice when it was new in the 1800s? And if Black relatives lived in Grimmauld Place 11 and 13 also, they would have had a good place to practice their pure blood pride. And then of course Walburga drew the relatives in number 11 and 13 mad, and when they moved away, they sold the properties to muggles as a last insult to her and Orion.

I’ve come to the conclusion that Walburga and Orion was forced to move into number 12 for some reason – either if this was because they lost all their money or their previous mansion burned down -or both idk.
But because the little house now was the only place Walburga had to put her pride in, she continued to live as she used to and showed no sign of poverty to others. But Sirius apparently has quite the amount of money – hence the Firebolt to Harry – and the house is also filled with silverware, jewelry, and snobby attitudes so they can’t have been completely poor. And why wouldn’t they use the little amount of money they had to leave the poor muggle neighborhood?

I’ve also concluded that much of the fake pride in the house is being enhanced by Kreacher who only want to keep the house in a state that would impress his masters.