[HPforGrownups] Sirius - Wizard newspapers

[Monika Huebner]

No: HPFGUIDX 16823

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Hardenbrook [mailto:DaveH47 at mindspring.com]
> 
> At 03:51 PM 4/14/01 +0000, rainy_lilac at yahoo.com wrote:
> >I am nervous too-- has anyone taken note that Rita Skeeter now knows
> >that Sirius Black is an animagus??? And that he is close to Harry???
> 
> Hermione could retaliate and say Rita is one too -- But what if she
> runs (flies) off like Wormtail?

Where could she go? I really don't see her going into hiding and
live off rats. <g> She could join the Dark Side like Pettigrew, maybe
write articles for the Death Eaters, but that is more than unlikely.
I'm not feeling very good about her knowing so much now, either
and would hope that Hermione would keep her in the glass a bit
longer... 

> What I keep worrying about is that he'll finally get aquitted of
> murder and helping Voldy, but then they'll throw him back
> into Azkaban for being an unregistered animagus!

I doubt that being an unregistered animagus is enough to go
to Azkaban, unless you have abused of this ability to commit
crimes. And Sirius has already (unjustly) served 12 years in
Azkaban, so I don't think he'll go back just for being an
animagus.

>  (If there
> still *is* an Azkaban after WizWarII... Otherwise, maybe
> they'll just sentence him to a year of Wizard community
> service.)

He's part of the old crowd, so he will have served the community
quite a lot when VWII will be over IMHO. No one with a bit of
sense will be able to deny that. And I have a feeling that Fudge
will lose more and more influence in the wizarding world if he
continues to refuse to believe that Voldemort is back.
 
> I think they must realize it already... They forced Sirius back
> into human form just before they attempted to give him the
> Kiss...

Good point. BTW, how do you think they forced him back into
human form near the lake? That always puzzled me a bit. I think
he was too weak to resist them any longer and had lost his
immunity because of the new hope he had gathered, but I'd 
really like to hear if someone has an idea why dementors are
able to force an animagus to back into human form.
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zarleycat at aol.com [mailto:Zarleycat at aol.com]

> An increasing number of people now know the secret:
---snip---
> The unknown: Molly Weasley - and I bet she'll tell Arthur.  Plus,  
> she'll probably also want to know how and why her youngest son seems 
> to be on good terms with an escaped murderer.

My take on it is that she was allowed to stay there to tell Arthur later,
that this was Dumbledore's intention. Arthur works at the MoM, and 
although Ron always says that he works in the most boring department,
I'm not so sure that it is really *that* boring. Dumbledore needs 
someone trustworthy in the MoM, and Arthur seems to be the ideal
person. He may have been part of the old crowd during VWI, too.
Didn't the fake Moody say that Arthur must know the Imperius curse
very well? That sounds as though his work for the ministry hasn't
always been as boring as it is now. 

> Which leads me to a totally unrelated topic - is there any other 
> source of news for the wizard world besides the Daily Planet?  We've 
> discussed the problems of the wizard court/legal system.  Does anyone 
> else feel that having only one news outlet is a dangerous thing to a 
> society???

The only other paper or magazine I remember is Witch Weekly, and
this doesn't seem to be a news magazine. We haven't heard of
anything else than the Daily Prophet so far. But we haven't heard
of any "parties" in the MoM either. We don't even know how the
Minister for Magic is elected. Yes, that seems to be a problem, but
the whole organization of the wizard society looks a bit archaic to
me, more like the feudal system that existed in Europe a few centuries
ago. The House Elves fit into this system very well, too. They always
reminded me of peasants who were owned by masters and weren't
paid, either.

Monika

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