Timeline for Did the Potter parents have a will/a testament? Who was supposed to raise Harry?
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| Nov 2, 2021 at 18:10 | comment | added | Silly but True | A will is not the only way to distribute your property when you die. Other common will alternatives include intestacy, nonprobate assets, revocable living trusts, and community property agreements. | |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 13:13 | answer | added | ava | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 1, 2021 at 18:49 | comment | added | QuestionAuthority | @ava While most people don't expect to die, most also realize that it can happen, even without a civil war and being the explicit target of a dark lord. Especially parents should have plans for the care of their children. | |
| Apr 30, 2021 at 17:08 | comment | added | ava | they probably didn't expect to die. | |
| Aug 18, 2018 at 11:46 | comment | added | QuestionAuthority | @FuzzyBoots I know, but the question here is whether there are established canon facts about the will or whether Rowling said something about the subject. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 8:48 | answer | added | Shruti Joshi | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Aug 14, 2018 at 18:09 | comment | added | FuzzyBoots | Totally non-canonical, a really common bit of fanon is that Dumbledore kept the wills from being discovered or read whether it's to gain control of Harry's money or to ensure he stays with the Dursleys for one reason or another. | |
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| Aug 13, 2018 at 22:05 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @NKCampbell Only children inheriting their parents’ estates outright is not just UK law, though—it’s pretty much ubiquitous in the Western World and has been since long before laws were codified. The wizarding community clearly have their own codified laws, but given that they probably did not start being codified sooner than Muggle laws, there’s no reason to suspect that they’re not based on the same premises where these premises apply equally well to both communities. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 21:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1029110815671181313 | ||
| Aug 13, 2018 at 20:48 | comment | added | NKCampbell | sure - just saying that citing UK law isn't necessarily authoritative :) | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 20:41 | comment | added | Cadence | @NKCampbell The principles of intestacy are well-established parts of the common law. Absent any reason to think the wizards don't have a similar principle, I would assume they do, just like I assume they have a law against theft even if it isn't stated. The exact statute may well be different, but this isn't a particularly controversial case as far as intestacy goes. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 20:29 | comment | added | NKCampbell | @Cadence - except that - scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110040/… | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 19:59 | comment | added | Cadence | @Allball103 The UK has statutes that deal with people who die "intestate" (without a will). According to WP, the gist of the law there is that if there's one kid and no surviving spouse, the kid gets it all. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 19:52 | comment | added | Ummdustry | It would've been somewhat irresponsible of them being members of the order of the phoenix, at constant risk of death, to not have a will. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 19:31 | comment | added | Valorum | @Allball103 - Not really needed. Harry was their only son and any of their friends (not least Dumbledore, a man of impeccable standing) could have attested to the fact that they wanted to leave it all to him. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 19:27 | comment | added | Allball103 | Considering Harry's large inheritance of money, they must've had SOME kind of will. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 19:23 | history | asked | QuestionAuthority | CC BY-SA 4.0 |