Sirius best man photo

[dfrankis at dial.pipex.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19733

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Susan Hall" <shall at s...> wrote:
> >going back to the post when someone said how
> >insensitive it was of someone to send Hagrid a photo
> with Sirius in it for Harry's album (because they
> >thought Sirius was his parents murderer) - perhaps
> Sirius was hidding at the time so they thought 'oh
> here's one without that evil Best Man in it, we'll
> >send that one'.
> 
> Or perhaps the person who sent it had gone through a whole album 
going
> "oh yes - that's sweet - oh damn, that rotter who murdered the 
McKinnons is
> right on the front row - that's a good one of Lily - dreadful one 
of James -
> and isn't that Rozier lurking around at the back? - this one looks 
ok - oh,
> no, it isn't - all four of the back row of that team were at  the 
infamous
> Muggle Baby Barbecue - oh, soddit, he can have the wedding photo 
and be done
> with it.  At least it was never *proved* about Black.  And anyway, 
doesn't
> little Peter look so cute in his top hat and tail"
> 
> Susan

Wouldn't it be doing Harry a disservice to airbrush his parents' best 
man out of history just because he's an evil murderer? If Harry 
hadn't found *any* pictures of Sirius it would just have deepened his 
paranoia about how nobody tells him any of the important stuff (OK I 
know that 90% of the time he has no curiosity about it, but still)

David