OH MY GOD!

I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING!

Okay, okay, okay, so

For the past decade or so, the Harry Potter fandom has been wondering how Sirius was able to inherit 12 Grimmauld Place, Kreacher, etc. when he fully admitted that his parents disowned him when he was sixteen.

And I’ve gone on record saying that perhaps the goblins don’t consider burning a name off of the tapestry to be the legal requirement to disown someone.

But what if

What if it was?

What if Sirius was really disowned for a while?

Now let’s talk about the other Black brother.

We know that Regulus died when he was eighteen.

So he would have been legally ‘of age’ in the wizarding world.

Get those dirty thoughts out of your head and let’s instead talk about historical sexism. See, we know that the Black family extends all the way back to the medieval ages. Which means that it’s very very likely that the Black family is patriarchal - meaning that the man has the say. 

Okay, okay, okay, okay

Now

Let’s talk about Orion

He was, most likely, a gigantic jerk

He was a gigantic jerk who died in the same year that Regulus did.

Here’s the thing

For some reason, I always assumed that he died after Regulus.

But it’s never specified.

Which means

If Orion died first, and Sirius was briefly disowned, Regulus would have been the patriarch of the Black family.

So here’s this eighteen-year-old who is given the ability to dictate everything about his family.

My child

I love him

So what I just realized was

What if Regulus reinstated Sirius as a member of the Black family?

You can even make the argument that Regulus did this after he found out that Voldemort left Kreacher to die and Regulus basically realized that his brother was right about Voldemort all along?

And then, knowing that he was most likely about to die, Regulus made Sirius the beneficiary of the Black family.

YES!

THINK ABOUT THIS!

Because it’s wonderful to think about.

And it actually makes a lot of sense!

And it can be supported with canonical evidence.

And it would be the biggest middle-finger to Walburga which is always a bonus.

And it is now my new favorite headcanon.