Sirius Motivations:"The Prank was Snape's Fault

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "siriusgeologist" <lrcjestes at e...> wrote:


> Sirius broke out of Azkaban for one primary reason.  
> To keep Harry from being killed by Pettigrew, whom he alone knew
was 
> working for Voldie. 

One thing here still bothers me.  Would Cowardly Petigrew have 
attempted to kill Harry before finding V and recovering him?  I think 
not. He had three years to do it, and didn't.

> Carole
> A serious Sirius defender

I guess I'm in the Club.  AFAIKT, Cannon doesn't tell us Sirius' 
motive for the prank, i.e. why Serius Told Snape about the Shack.
I think Snape spiked Serius' pumpkin juice with Veritaserum and
caused him thus to babble.  Recall in GF that he threatened to do
this to Harry.

So, why didn't Serius explain that he had been juiced?  He may not
know about it, himself.  If the serum is anything like Imperius,
what you do just seems like a good thing to do, at the time. So,
Serius himself my not know why he did it.

Tex