Who trusted Sirius? (was: Sirius V's #2?)

[monzaba at poczta.onet.pl]

No: HPFGUIDX 23987

Actually, I think it's quite shocking that James and Lily seem to be 
the *only* people who trusted Sirius. Everybody else, even those who 
knew him really well: Remus, Hagrid, McGonagall - were certain he 
betrayed his best friends and slaughtered the muggles. 

Still worse, it seems that Dumbledore shared their belief. I think he 
didn't quite trust any of James's friends, because he volunteered to 
be the Potters' Secret Keeper. He must have known that Sirius was 
thrown to Azkaban without trial and he didn't do anything about it. 
It came as a big surprise for me. After all, Dumbledore vouched for 
Snape and didn't care that Moody thought it's crazy.

As for Snape, I guess he'd been suspecting Sirius since the very 
moment he heard about a traitor in Potters' inner circle. After all, 
from his point of view, Sirius was capable even of murder of a 
perfectly innocent sixteen year old boy...

Still, if everybody was sure that Sirius was one of the darkest of 
Dark Wizards, why didn't they bring him to trial? Just to show him 
how much they hated him - and in order to get some information about 
other foul Death Eaters? Of course, they might have thought that 
Sirius would start framing innocent people, but a large dose of 
Veritaserum certainly would help?

Monika
(The Snape fan)
who thinks it was rather stupid of Severus to swallow Black's story 
and go to Shrieking Shack