[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore knowing about Sirius

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 11341

dherreid at colortechnology.com wrote:

> But, didn't he pretty strongly imply that Sirius had only just told
> him, when he [Dumbledore] was talking to Harry at the end of book 3 (I
> think)?
>
> --Amanda
>
> Hmmm, okay, maybe I went a little beyond what I meant to say (after
> all, I did say that that was what I believed at that moment) - but it
> still doesn't change my mind about the central point; that it was
> Dumbledore's plan to flush out Voldemorte's spy.

As for Sirius' innocence, Dumbledore didn't know that Sirius *didn't* do
the crime until after he got to talk to him at the end of PoA. To his
credit, he believed him at that point, but prior to that, Dumbledore
neither knew Sirius was innocent nor that he was an animagus. I refuse
to believe Dumbledore would (a) condone the imprisonment of an innocent
man in Azkaban, even if all he could do was complain, or (b) withhold
potentially valuable information (animagus ability) about a dangerous
criminal.

--Amanda


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