[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore wonderings (WAS The Gleam and the Hiss)

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No: HPFGUIDX 36262

In a message dated 09/03/02 02:00:20 GMT Standard Time, rshuson80 at yahoo.com 
writes:


> Another wonderment, not really relevant to the above:
> If Dumbledore's word carried enough weight to get Snape cleared, 
> couldn't he now testify to clear Black's name too?  Admittedly, we 
> don't know what other evidence was raised at Snape's trial, but a 
> large number of witnesses (Lupin, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Dumbledore, 
> even Snape, if someone held a gun to his head) could testify they saw 
> Pettigrew alive, and that he was an animagus.  
> 
> -Nyarth 

I'm not sure that Dumbledore *could* get Sirius off. What evidence does he 
have, other than his (Sirius') and the children's words? Lupin is a werewolf 
and we can be sure his word wouldn't count. And neither Dumbledore nor Snape 
actually *saw* Pettigrew alive in PoA. Snape was unconscious (although he did 
hear the conversation about the Marauders becoming animagi). Dumbledore 
simply believes what he's told. He points out that Sirius has not behaved 
like an innocent man and that he is powerless to do anything. That was why 
the whole time turner thing was necessary. Nothing evidence-wise has changed 
since then.

On the other hand, if Sirius' real wand is sitting in the MoM, then all he 
has to do is ask for it to be PI'd and there we are...... but of course, it 
isn't, because he was framed and.......well, you all know what I'm going to 
say :-)

F.I.E.!

Eloise


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