Serious, I mean Sirius, Evil

[Melody <Malady579@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52473

Mike added more questions:
> When Sirius went to the Potter's home, after checking up on
> Pettigrew, and discovered the carnage, why didn't he mention the
> Secret Keeper change to Hagrid or send an owl to anyone else?

First:
Sink into Black's point of view--we tried to do this is chat on Sunday
and it went to weird areas so you have been forewarned...though, I
doubt those areas will arise into the discussion here.

Black had just discovered that the two people who he would of died for
just died because he choose poorly.  Not only did James and Black
choose the secret keeper poorly, they told no one else about what they
had done.  Now Black has this deep, deep crushing blow of loosing his
best friend because of his short sightedness *and* he is the only one
that knows the truth.  He had been bested by Peter once (i.e. James
and Lily are dead now), so Black must be thinking Peter was expecting
Black to come after him once he found out they were dead.  Peter,
having engineered and executed the spying and the lying, has shown
himself smart enough to slip out of sight, and *no one* would suspect
him.  The WW will all think Black, the supposed secret keeper, was the
spy and sneak.  Black had to act fast.  He had to catch Peter before
he got away.

So Black, impassioned (::sigh::), adrenaline pumping, anger boiling,
mind racing, went after Peter because that is what he does.  He is a
impulse person.  What words could Black of told Hagrid that night
anyway?  Those words would have been assumed to be lies because Black
was trying to weasel his way out of being guilty.  There is no proof
of his innocence without Peter's confession.  That is why he just
bolted.

And I think we must give a little credit to Black's character and
reputation.  Dumbledore and Lupin never say he *was* guilty.  They
seems to still harbor a little hope that he wasn't.  They harbored
that hope because they knew Black.  What they knew was his devotion
and passion.  What they are struggling with is the fact that what they
think happened at the Potter's that night does not add up with the
person they thought they knew.  And even though the facts seem to
point to Black, and they have to a degree conceded to the facts, they
still seem to believe deep down that Black was telling the truth and
was an honorable man.  If they didn't, then they would not of been so
quick to believe him and embraces him.

I guess I believe that they believe that someone cannot fake the kind
of love and devotion that Black had for James.  It is philo and agape.
 At their finest.  It is pure and encouraging to see.  You just cannot
fake that unless you are a brilliant actor.  And Dumbledore and Lupin
knew Black with James at least from time they were 11.  I think they
would know what was there.


Mike asked:
>After Sirius was imprisoned in Azkaban, are we to supose that
>another DE told Sirius about Peter's year long treachery?

Ehh...no.  They knew *someone* was spying on them for a year.  In the
Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade, McGonagall told the lot that
Dumbledore suspected that someone was leaking out info on the Potters.
 There would be a start time from which they realized that someone was
spying on them.  Thus, I see no big jump in logic for Black to say it
had been a year.  Black sitting in his cell had a long time to think
about all the facts he knew.  And when Peter began his treachery had
to be a big milestone for him to figure out.


Mike also asked:
> Dumbledore believes in second chances, why didn't Albus who counted
> Sirius as one of "the old crowd" ever talk to Sirius about his role
> in the Potter murders?

What good would it of done?  Dumbledore has known the truth before
**cough**Hagrid**cough** and could do nothing.  Theses are the times
of Crouch's courts.  All the evidence points to Black.  And without
Peter's body well...even the great Dumbledore the White would not of
been able to stop the Black from going to Azkaban.  In fact, he did
not even get a chance.  There was no trial.

But why did Dumbledore not go to Azkaban to question Black?

One word: Dementors.

He *hates* them.  Why go and find out if what he has heard is true
when it will do no good and he would have to be around those things?


Melody