Sirius a "pureblood"?

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 37288

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Monika Huebner" <monika at d...> wrote:
> 
> Dave Hardenbrook wrote:
> 
> > This is an interesting question about the nature of Sirius' 
family:
> > What sort of family, Wizard or Muggle, would allow their son to go
> > to prison without a trial??
> 
> That's what struck me about this affair, too. Other people have 
already
> provided some answers, like his family being dead or ashamed of 
their
> son, the mass murderer. Well, I don't want to declare him a tragic 
orphan,
> but his family rejecting him because of his crimes makes quite a 
lot of
> sense. It seems that no one except Dumbledore is actually helping 
him
> in GoF, maybe Lupin, but we don't really know it. Everyone still 
believes
> he's guilty, so the only family he has is Harry. Maybe we'll learn 
more
> about it once we get to know the old crowd, at least I hope so.
> 

Or, maybe at the time of the crimes, the Black family were not even 
allowed to see Sirius, either before or after he was sent to 
Azkaban.  Since this whole affair was handled so quickly and Sirius 
was bundled off to prison so fast, maybe his family didn't have time 
to get any help for him.  They may have found themselves in the 
position of having Ministry people listen politely to their pleas, 
with no intention of doing anything, because, after all, the Ministry 
knows Sirius is guilty, and, of course, if they just let the parents 
wail on a bit, eventually they'll go away.

And, once he escapes from Azkaban, Sirius' first concern is Harry.  
If he knows his family is still alive (would he know that?), he may 
want to stay out of contact because either he believes 1. that they 
think he's a murderer, and they'd turn him in if he showed up on 
their doorstep, or 2. that the Ministry will immediately start 
monitoring his family thinking that he might try to get in touch with 
them, and to keep both himself and them safe, he won't contact them 
and certainly won't try to see them at home.

Marianne