The Spying Game and the Shrieking Shack (VERY LONG)

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 39688

You got a fascinating theory there, Pip.  I love your analysis of 
Snape's actions, and, like Porphyria, I'm all for Competent!Snape.  
But I'm afraid that the analysis of Dumbledore falls apart for me 
here.

You're basically suggesting that Dumbledore knew Sirius didn't 
betray the Potters, yet Dumbledore gave false evidence against him 
and allowed him to go to Azkaban for life without a trial on the 
basis of nothing more than a vague suspicion that the Secret-keeper 
switch seemed kind of dodgy?  And, as a side effect, allowed the 
Potters' real betrayer to be posthumously hailed as a hero?  That 
would make Dumbledore way worse than Crouch, Sr., who at least 
genuinely believed that Sirius was guilty.  It's out of character, 
too: Dumbledore hates Dementors; there's no way he would hand a man 
over to them for life for nothing more than a suspicion.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com