Dark Sirius? (was Re: TBAY: Banging On The Dishwasher)

[David]

No: HPFGUIDX 47118

Cindy fired a canon:
> 
> "What he really wanted (and it felt almost shameful to admit it to 
> himself) was someone like – someone like a *parent*: an adult 
wizard 
> whose advice he could ask without feeling stupid, someone who cared 
> about him, who had had experience with Dark Magic . . . .  And then 
> the solution came to him.  It was so simple, so obvious, that he 
> couldn't believe it had taken so long –- Sirius."
> 
and glossed:

> "Isn't this canon strange?  I mean, Sirius is supposed to be a good 
> guy.  He was on Dumbledore's team, and he is probably good at 
> Transfiguration.  But there's nothing to suggest he knows the first 
> thing about Dark Magic.  We've never seen him perform any, and he 
> hasn't even conjured a Patronus, so far as we know.  Yet here JKR 
is 
> hinting that Sirius is someone who 'had experience with Dark 
> Magic.'  What could she be implying there, exactly?  That Sirius is 
> *Ever So Evil,* do you think?"

No time for TBAY, I'm afraid.

But how would Harry know?  The canon quote is Harry's internal 
monologue.  So, whatever it is, it's got to refer to something Harry 
knows about Sirius.  The following possibilities come to mind 
immediately; there are doubtless more:

- MWPP were known to Harry to be deep in Dumbledore's work against 
Voldemort;

- Sirius had to endure years of random burblings by DEs in Azkaban in 
which they may have given away secrets;

- as one of the best students of his time, he could be supposed to 
have got the hang of the DADA curriculum pretty well.

I lean towards the first, myself, as the others are IMO things Harry 
would be unlikely to consider.

I agree there is a dark side to Sirius signalled, but IMO this canon 
is not part of that, nor, again IMO, is involvement in the dark arts 
what is signalled.

David