SHIP: CUPID'SBLUDGER on the rebound (WAS: Snape's Secret ...

[alhewison]

No: HPFGUIDX 38211

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Edblanning at a... wrote:
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> Eloise:
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> I have to say, though, that Charis Julia's and Cindy's suggestion 
that she is  actually Sirius' rather than Snape's inamorata does make 
more sense, to me at  least:
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> Cindy:
> >Remember how Sirius escaped from 
> >Azkaban?  He somehow knew exactly the neighborhood where he could 
> >find Harry.  Sirius also inexplicably knows that Harry has been 
> >living with his aunt and uncle.  How could Sirius, locked in 
Azkaban for 12 years, know these details?  
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> >Pillow talk, my friends.  Sirius escaped Azkaban and went straight 
to his old flame Arabella, and she told him where to find Harry and 
> >filled him in on the doings in Harry's life.  Arabella, bless her, 
> >never believed Sirius was guilty.  She knew him too well.  
> 
> >Finally, we know that Sirius was sent to notify the old crowd of 
> >Voldemort's return, including Arabella.  That raises the question 
of how Dumbledore can be so sure Arabella won't turn Sirius in to MoM 
on sight?  The answer, I think, is that Arabella and Sirius go way 
back,so to speak.
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> Eloise:
> Mmm.....Perhaps this *is* the reason for her lonely exile. Sirius 
is  arrested. Arabella is heartbroken and can't live with the looks 
she gets as  the despised lover of that dangerous criminal, Sirius 
Black, so she turns her  back on the wizarding world and, known only 
to Dumbledore (and the hair  donor) goes to do what she can to 
protect her beloved's godson. I mean, it's  a pretty big thing she's 
done, isn't it? 
> 
> My only question is how Sirius knew where to find Arabella, since 
presumably she is only living two streets from Privet Drive in order 
to keep an eye on  Harry and so, like Harry, must have moved at 
appoximately the time of his  arrest. I certainly can't see that he 
could have known or either of their  whereabouts whilst he was in 
prison. Of course, perhaps he knows the little  old lady (her mother? 
her aunt?) from whom she's harvesting the hair and went  there first.
> 
> But if Cindy is wrong about this, then it does raise the questions 
of exactly  *how* Sirius locates Harry so precisely and why Arabella 
can be trusted to  believe in Sirius when apparently everyone, down 
to Dumbledore has believed  he is guilty. Mind you, the same goes for 
Mundungus Fletcher. It can't be  coincidence that he is to go to 
Lupin's first: he can vouch for him.
> 
> I suppose that it is just possible that Sirius did know where the 
Dursleys  lived. After all, presumably James would have known. I can 
just imagine him  taking Sirius to see exactly how awful his in-laws 
were. But he wouldn't have  know that Dumbledore had taken Harry 
there, would he? I'm sure he wouldn't  have contemplated doing it and 
he wouldn't expect it of Dumbledore, either.
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> 
I actually believe that Sirius *did* know that Dumbledore had 
arranged for Harry to go to the Dursleys. In POA p154 UK edition 
Hagrid says:

"But I'd had me orders from Dumbledore, an' I told Black no, 
Dumbledore said Harry was ter go ter his aunt an' uncle's. Black 
argued, but in the end he gave in".

By the time Harry was sent to the Dursleys we are told they were his 
only living relatives, then presumably Sirius did know that it was 
the Dursleys and not some other unknown aunt and uncle. I think he 
would have known how bad the Dursleys were as he and James were 
close. That doesn't mean he knew where they lived, although this is 
possible.

I've also wondered about the sort of reception that Sirius might get 
from the "Old Crowd". Dumbledore has known of Sirius' innocence for a 
whole year and has also been aware of strange occurrences indicating 
Voldemort's rise to power. Is it not then possible that Dumbledore 
has alerted some of his faithful followers to Sirius' innocence - or 
at least to its possibility?

Ali


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