[HPforGrownups] Sirius

[Monika Huebner]

No: HPFGUIDX 14957


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amy Z [mailto:aiz24 at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 9:28 PM
> To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [HPforGrownups] Sirius - Snape & McGonagall - Draco's pants
> 
> 
> Monika wrote:
> 
> >But this raises another question: doesn't anyone find it strange that 
> >he was supposed to be Voldy's second in command if he was only 
> >21 or 22 in 1981? 

Amy wrote:

> Good point.  I think we hear the "You-Know-Who's right hand man" thing 
> from Stan Shunpike, no?  Or is it from Fudge?

Fudge says something like that, too:
"I must say, You-Know-Who alone and friendless is one thing...
but give him back his most devoted servant, and I shudder to
think how quickly he'll raise again..."
Of course "most devoted servant" is not exactly the same thing
as "right hand man", but it implies that Fudge believes (or wants
to make us/the wizarding world believe) that Sirius was not only
very close to Voldy, but also very high in the hierarchy.

> If the former, I think it might not be fact, but the embellishment of 
> legend.  Stan, who is too young to remember the actual event, got the 
> story many times removed, and he's laying it on thick for Harry.  

There is certainly something like legend or myth involved, but
it seems that someone spread the rumor that Sirius was indeed
Voldy's right hand man. What made people believe that Sirius was
so powerful a wizard? I still don't get it...

Monika

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