Sirius Black-What a Guy!

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 44321

-- In HPforGrownups at y..., "aaoconnor2002" <aaoconnor2002 at y...> wrote:
> Audrey (who has to be honest and admit that in a life or death 
> situation she would pick Snape also.  Sirius was too willing to 
give 
> up and spend 12 years in prison.  Give me a man of action even if I 
> may not always agree with him!)       

Too willing to give up???  Fudge tells us that Black was taken away 
by "twenty members of the Magical Law Enforcement Squad."  I suppose 
at that point Sirius could have struggled against all of them, tried 
to Stun all of them, Leg-locker Cursed all of them, but somehow, I 
think the odds were against him at that particular moment.  No action 
was going to allow him to escape to try to get to someone in power 
who would sit down and listen to his side of the story.

At that point, physical resistance was futile, and, if Sirius was 
thinking at all clearly, he might very well have figured that he'd 
get a chance to explain things at a trial.  We all know what happened 
about that.

Now, maybe he should have traipsed out of Azkaban the first chance he 
got, but...why?  He knew the entire world thought him guilty, he 
blamed himself for the Potters' deaths, and he was in a high security 
cell with Dementors outside the door day and night, according to 
Fudge.  Knowing how Dementors affect people, sucking all their 
happiness away, leaving behind everything wretched, maybe the best 
anyone can do is try to keep one's sanity.  Which Sirius accomplished 
to a fair degree.  

And, once he had the motivation of knowing that Peter was near Harry 
at school, he flung himself into the North Sea and headed for 
Hogwarts.  So, I respectfully disagree with the idea that Sirius is 
not a man of action.

Marianne