Something's been bothering me about Sirius

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Chelsea2162 at a... wrote:
>           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*


Very good points made by everyone here, just wanted to add that 
obviously from the reader's POV we *needed* to have a character 
assassination on Sirius to get worked up and worried about this man 
and whether he was going to catch up with Harry.

Without Stan acting as a mouthpiece for the wizarding world and 
passing on the rumours, we wouldn't have any sense of Sirius's 
importance.

Jules