Evil female character & Sirius as Auror

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 30447

Christine wrote:

> Salon.com's 7/6/00 article discussing the 4th Potter book 
states "Rowling has said that she will introduce the first really 
evil female character; " in book 4.  Did anyone notice an evil female 
character?  I'm racking my brain and I cannot think of any.  Or was 
someone's true colors shown?

I think they are referring either to Rita Skeeter or Mrs. Lestrange.  
I'd say Mrs. Lestrange is about as evil as you can get, so JKR must 
be thinking of her.

Bree wrote:

> I was under the impression that Sirius Black WAS an Auror, so the 
MoM 
> would have had to send specially trained "hit wizards" (the Green 
> Berets or Seals of the Aurors?) to capture one of their own. 
> 
> This may also explain why Sirius wasn't killed on sight. As an 
Auror, 
> his co-workers might have wanted to give him the chance of a trial, 
> especially since he proclaimed his innocence.
> 

I don't think Sirius could have been an auror.  In GoF, he doesn't 
seem to understand what the dark mark on Karkaroff's arm was.  Also, 
Sirius says, "As far as I know, Snape was never even accused of being 
a Death Eater."  An auror would know Snape had been accused of being 
a DE and had the dark mark on his arm; Moody certainly did.

I would guess that Sirius' pre-Azkaban occupation involved something 
having to do with transfiguration, as he seems pretty good at that.  
Given that Peter was able to hoodwink Sirius so thoroughly, I'd say 
Sirius' strengths are not in the area of law enforcement and 
intelligence gathering.

Cindy (hoping we haven't seen the last of Mrs. Lestrange)