Something's been bothering me about Sirius

[Chelsea2162 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 35186

> 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 think that Stan's speculation about Sirius was a direct link to 
the Sirius/Peter confrontation. Look at it this way - everyone knows 
Voldemort killed the Potters. Very soon after, Siruis chases Peter down,and 
in front of many spectators, Peterbegins screaming about how Sirius betrayed 
them. Obviously, people are going to say "Ah ha! Sirius betrayed he Potters, 
so he MUST be working for Voldemort,who killed them!" Stan,like everyone else 
in the wizarding world, would have heard of the 
Potters' murders, and then what happened between Sirius and Peter, and would 
have (like everyone else) assumed that Sirius was high up on Voldy's 
heirarchy. 
 
*Chelsea*