[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius; Fudge eats words

[Monika Huebner]

No: HPFGUIDX 15010

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amy Z [mailto:aiz24 at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 9:51 PM
> To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius; Fudge eats words

Amy wrote:

> When does he say this?  It's now, isn't it?

Yes, it's now, he said it during the conversation Harry overheard
in the Three Broomsticks.

>no one
> thought of Sirius as V's "right-hand-man" or anything like it before
> then, because they thought he was on the right side.  At least, such
> stars of the anti-V effort as Dumbledore, James, and Lily did, and
> presumably Fudge did too.

Well, Dumbledore seemed to have had at least some suspicions
about Sirius because he tried to dissuade James and Lily from
using Sirius as a Secret-Keeper and offered to be their Secret-Keeper
himself. He knew that someone had been passing information to
Voldy for about a year, and he certainly didn't suspect Peter.
Apparently nobody ever suspected Peter.

> BTW, it's very interesting to be reminded that Fudge said that, in
> light of his actions in GoF.  When informed that You-Know-Who did
> indeed get back his most devoted servant (well, one of them), he
> nevertheless flatly refuses to believe that he's risen again.

If he admits that Voldy is back, he will have to do something about
it. For some reason, he doesn't want to do anything about it. I still
cannot believe that he is really evil, rather someone who isn't a
man of action and tries to rule the (wizarding) world from behind
the desk in his office. But I'm not sure...

Marianne wrote:

> My comment was that indeed it is interesting that Fudge would be
> eager to see Sirius as V's right-hand man without much persuading,
> but would not want to see some obvious Voldemort activity in GoF.  It
> makes me think of a comment someone on this list made a while ago
> regarding Sirius' imprisonment w/o trial.  One of the reasons given
> as to why this happened was that someone in power in the MOM, who is
> really in league with Voldemort, wanted to ensure that Sirius was
> removed from the playing field.  In other words, get him out of the
> game by sending him to prison.

I said this a while ago, this is one of my pet theories. I can still not believe
that Sirius was just "one of those" who were sent to Azkaban without a
trial. We know he wasn't the only one, but is this really the only reason?
I mean, was he just another victim of Crouch's zeal to restore the order
after Voldy's downfall? It seems to be a bit to easy an explanation to me.
And remember how keen Fudge was at the end of PoA to get rid of Sirius
once and for all by having him kissed by a Dementor. Of course the
Ministry had failed to catch him, but he didn't commit another major
crime, and changing the sentence from imprisonment in Azkaban to
death is a bit hard IMHO just for breaking out and avoiding being
caught. Of course everybody believed he was really dangerous, but
there wasn't any real proof of this.

Monika

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