Sirius (was" Peeves' function in the story

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 5551

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at a...> wrote:
> I was thinking specifically of the end of Chapter 8 in PoA, where 
> he gets he last word: "Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black." 
> It was that assessment of Sirius that resonated for me through most
> of the book, 

Not that long ago, someone asked rhetorically, who would have 
guessed at the beginning of PoA that Sirius is actually the hero? 
And at that time, I didn't get around to answering, but when Tim 
was first listening to the tape of GoF, he was listening to Chapter 
Three or wherever it is that Harry first finds out that the 
wizarding world is also scared of that Sirius Black that he heard 
about on Muggle TV, Tim turned to me and said: "He's a good guy." I 
would have fallen out of my seat if I hadn't been wearing my 
seat belt, and I gasped: "How did you know?" before I realised that 
that phraseology was a SPOILER and changed it to 'What makes you 
think he didn't kill all those people?"

and Tim said: "I don't know whether he killed all those people, but 
I know that he is going to be revealed as a good guy, because Rowling 
has gone to so much effort to paint him as a monstrous villain."