Sirius's attack on Ron; how Sirius got in

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No: HPFGUIDX 36125

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "dicentra_spectabilis_alba" <bonnie at n...> 
wrote:
> 
> Sirius shows up with a knife and slashes Ron's bedcurtains AFTER
> Scabbers fakes his own death. Sirius later says that Crookshanks 
told
> him about the faked death. So why go looking for Scabbers in Ron's 
bed
> at that point?

Could it be that Crookshands hadn't told him yet at that point?  
Maybe he wasn't able to contact him all that often (in fact, I'm 
pretty sure he wasn't, it would start attracting way too much 
attention to see an abnormally large dog on the grounds all the 
time).  Maybe after Sirius's "attack" on Ron, Sirius asked 
Crookshanks why Peter wasn't there or told Crookshanks he hadn't been 
able to get to Peter, to which Crookshanks responded, "Sorry, mate, 
didn't get to tell you, little rat faked his own death."  Of course, 
I'm not looking at PoA right now, so it could be there is evidence 
this couldn't be right.

> Also, after the Shrieking Shack scene, when the Trio are in the
> infirmary and Dumbledore finally manages to kick everyone out
> (including a comically irate Snape), Hermione and Harry hit 
Dumbledore
> with a barrage of statements, the last one being "...Pettigrew
> attacked Ron, it wasn't Sirius..."
> 
> Since I had the aforementioned question in my head, I wondered if 
Ron
> had seen Pettigrew that night and mistaken him for Sirius. But then 
I
> realized that the "attack" refers to what happened just as Lupin
> transformed into a werewolf--Pettigrew gets hold of Lupin's dropped
> wand (***note to those who wonder about lost wands: apparently, they
> do get dropped when wizards transform***) 

Special case there, I think.  Werewolves are not Animagi really in 
the truest sense, and didn't Lupin have his wand out anyway?  Perhaps 
he dropped it only as the transformation was starting to come over 
him.  Even leaving this aside, werewolves maybe don't have the same 
rules of Animagi as far as wands are concerned (and clothes?--does it 
mention anywhere for sure about the werewolf and clothes?).  I still 
think Animagi retain their wands (they certainly seem to retain their 
clothes).  Another question, canon is strangely silent on the state 
of Pettigrew's clothes in PoA...is he naked?  At least, I thought I 
looked very thoroughly last time and saw nothing about clothes on 
Pettigrew.

and blasts Ron and
> Crookshanks before Harry expelliarmuses him, he transforms into a 
rat,
> and disappears into the grass.



> 
> What's interesting is that Hermione or Harry (can't tell who said 
it)
> would fixate on *that* attack, conveniently forgetting that Sirius 
did
> in fact attack Ron and break his leg.
> 

Two things: 1) One attack (Peter's) was more recent and 2) They're 
probably fixated, at the moment, on all the evil Peter has done, 
maybe even trying to avoid talking about any wrong-doing of Sirius 
(subconsciously avoiding it or otherwise).  Besides, it all happens 
so fast, I can believe they'd forget or not have time or whatever to 
go into every detail.

But if I'm wrong about any of this, let me know.  Like I said, I 
don't have PoA handy.  And can anyone answer the questions I raised?

Devin