Something's been bothering me about Sirius

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 35176

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Felicia Rickmann" <felicia.rickmann at d...> 
> At this mention of Sirius Black what little back history there is,
Stan relates to Harry - already in a state of panic fleeing from an
inflated aunt and the Dursleys, and convinced he is to be banished
from the wizarding world.  Later, when we learn more about Sirius,
nothing else links him to Voldemort except the Pettigrew's * explosion
*.  Does it?  Sirius, we find out later, was the Potter's Secret
Keeper, so why build a mysterious, rumour-fuelled unsubstantiated
element to his past linking him to Voldemort?   
> 

I suspect that right after the Potters were killed and Sirius got
railroaded into Azkaban, there would've been an insane amount of
rumors and speculation about that awful man Black and why he did it. 
Daily Prophet reporters, robbed of their chance to cover a sensational
trial, would be reduced to going around interviewing anyone they could
get their hands on.  The surviving witnesses would've been recounting,
in increasingly lurid detail, that shudder-worthy scene of Sirius
standing there laughing after the explosion.  Sirius' old schoolmates,
next-door neighbors, cleaning lady and local bartender would've been
doing talk shows on the Wizard Wireless, going on sagely about how
they always knew there was something not right about that boy, going
about with his shaggy hair and his flying motorcycle, a different
woman in his flat every night, anyone could see he was bad news...  Of
course he worked for You-know-who!  Must've been his right-hand man
all along, a shame the Aurors hadn't caught him sooner...  Twelve
years later, the rumors would be all anyone would really remember.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com