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

[Tandy, Heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 23988



>  
> 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?

Just IMHO, but....
It's very good for Lucius Malfoy if everyone thinks Sirius Black (brilliant
young wizard as he is) was Voldemort's Deputy. It's very good if he gets
framed for the murders of the muggles, and internally for setting up the
murders of Lily and James. It's very good if he gets thrown into a place
where his mind is *sure* to get addled and break within a year or less.

It's very bad if he gets a trial.
It's very bad if he gets Veritasserum.
It's very bad if Ministry officials keep wondering if Voldemort's Deputy is
still lurking on the outside, moving among witches and wizards as if he'd
never done anything wrong.

So Lucius (and likely a few other death eaters) have a VERY vested interest
in *suggesting* (not telling, not ordering, not Imperio-ing) that the
Ministry lock that crazy sirius black up and throw away the key. Throw him
to the dementors. Make him silent. 

And IMHO, I've always thought that Pettigrew *planned* for Sirius to come
after him, even BEFORE everything went wrong for Voldemort when he tried to
kill Harry. I think that Peter was supposed to go *back* to dumbledore's
side after the Potters were killed and continue to pass informaiton about
DUMBLEDORE to Voldemort - I mean, killing the Potters couldn't've been the
be-all-and-end-all of his grasp for power- he still was opposed by the
Ministry (well, officially) and by Dumbledore, and there was more fighting
and destroying for him to do. And they needed a way to destroy Sirius,
because after the three Potters were killed, he would know exactly what
Peter was - he had to be disgraced and destroyed immediately afterwards.
They may've had 2 plans - #1 - that Peter was supposed to hang around the
house so when Sirius came, he could destroy him wiht whatever charm-power
VOldemort had given him, or #2 if he didn't come to the house, he was
supposed to allow Sirius to find him and do, well, exactly what he did. And
when Voldemort was destroyed, Peter knew he was in ever more danger, and he
had to go through with the plan to destroy sirius to save his own skin,
especially when there was no Voldemort to protect him.