[HPforGrownups] Re: Some Sirius Black Questions.

[Susanne]

No: HPFGUIDX 36349



Hi,

Monday, March 11, 2002, 1:21:52 PM, serenadust wrote:

> I also don't understand the idea that Sirius is supposed to be a 
> terrible person because Ron's leg was broken in the process of being 
> dragged down to the Shrieking Shack.  He was dragging him down there 
> in desperate anticipation of Harry following them.  The only reason 
> Ron's leg broke is that he had hooked it around a root to resist 
> being dragged away, not because Black was really trying to hurt him.

Yeah, but hurt it does, even if it is relatively easy to
repair later on.

And Sirius seems so focused on killing Peter, that he
doesn't care hurting Harry (maybe understandably, since
Harry attacked him) and Ron, again.

Scene taken out of PoA:

>   "I meant to," he growled, his yellow teeth bared, "but little
>Peter got the better of me... not this time, though!"

>    And Crookshanks was thrown to the floor as Black lunged at
>Scabbers; Ron yelled with pain as Black's weight fell on his
>broken leg.<


And why, exactly did Black want Harry to follow, anyhow?

As a witness? To explain his innocence to Harry?

I guess nobody besides Lupin would have believed him, if
they hadn't seen Scabbers transform into Pettigrew.

Maybe he should have planned on more witnesses?
Would he have been able to persuade Dumbledore to listen and
watch, if he had tried?

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 Susanne                           mailto:siskiou at earthlink.net