So Why didn't Dumbledore Punish Sirius?

[pippin_999 <foxmoth@qnet.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48242

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Angela Evans 
<sixhoursahead at y...> wrote:
> 
> I am a Sirius-supporter to the end.  I'm glad that he was not 
punished for the prank, but I do not understand WHY he got away 
with it?  Maybe he didn't.  Maybe he was punished, but the 
punishment for something like that would probably be expulsion.  
<<

We don't know if Sirius admitted to  anything except telling Snape 
how to get into the Willow. Suppose that Lupin told Dumbledore 
that Sirius wasn't in on the secret of what Lupin was? That he'd 
given Sirius some other story to explain why he was going out 
through the Willow passage? There wouldn't be any evidence 
that Sirius knew  Lupin was a werewolf, and no one would have 
been able to question him about it without giving the secret 
away. That would have made the Prank look much more 
innocent.

 Dumbledore might well have suspected something after that, 
but what could he do? He was probably too preoccupied with the 
rise of Voldemort to keep an eye on the Marauders the way he 
kept an eye on Tom Riddle. 

The realization that Sirius had indeed known about Lupin all 
along would give an additional reason for Snape to lose it in the 
Shack and add some extra fire to Snape's "You haven't forgotten" 
speech in the Hospital Wing.

Pippin
who agrees that it's very suspicious we don't know where Lupin 
was all those years, and is putting money on Albania.