[HPforGrownups] Book 3- Sirius

[Stephanie Becvar]

No: HPFGUIDX 8770

Well, look at the obvious...if they did that stuff....Sirius would be 
respectable...and Harry's life and getting through things would be too easy. 
  A big part of Harry is that he doesn't really have anyone to turn to, and 
to talk out stuff....I mean he can tell Sirius about Big things like his 
scar, but he never got to tell him about Ron, and if Sirius HAD been there 
in GoF....he woulda done the same dragon trick as Krum...I mean, this stuff 
DOESNT happen bc JKR is planning for what happens next...

Stephanie



> > Last thing.  At the end of Book 3, when Sirius was caught, and when they 
>all
> > were saying that they couldn't trust just 2 kids instead of an 
>adult(Snape),
> > thinking Sirius Confounded both of them, why didn't they use the truth 
>potion
> > on Sirius?  I know that the dementors had permission to perform the Kiss 
>and
> > all, but this really is a life-or-death situation. Shouldn't they have 
>given
> > Sirius the chance?  They didn't have anything to lose-- if Harry and 
>Hermione
> > were Confounded, Sirius would say that given the truth potion.
>
>There's a lawyerly explanation for this which has a few components, 
>involving
>protectiona against self-incrimination-against-one's-will, or the same 
>reason why
>lie detector tests aren't admissible in US courtroom, or that it's too new 
>a
>potion to be trusted by the ministry
>
>But I have a different question - one which hasn't been asked at all, at 
>least
>since I joined the list in June - Why, after Sirius broke into Gryffendor 
>Tower,
>didn't they use Hermione's time turner for one turn, stand right inside the
>portrait & nab him when he came in?
>

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