Did Rita see Sirius transform?

[finwitch <finwitch@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52575

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Devika <devika at s...>" 
<devika at s...> wrote:
> I reply: 

> Imagine:  a brilliant article exposing the terrible miscarriage of 
> justice that the Ministry of Magic committed by sentencing an 
> innocent man to a life term in Azkaban, not to mention the true 
> culprit behind those twelve (not thirteen) murders.  I think this 
is 
> a case where the truth may be far more interesting than fiction, 
and 
> Rita does seem to enjoy pointing out errors made by the Ministry.  

Hermione *knows* Rita saw Sirius! Everyone knows about Lupin being a 
werewolf now, so Hermione might just *tell* her the truth. (Maybe she 
did that while Harry was too numb to notice anything?)

At any rate, Rita *might* write about Voldemort's return - to get at 
Cornelius Fudge. (Except that she's better off with Fudge than 
Dumbledore). She doesn't get *That* on Dumbledore, but with Sirius' 
innosence - she'll tell of Dumbledore's grave error in his testimony 
about Sirius Black being the Secret Keeper while he was not, causing 
innocent man hauled off to Azkaban, thus making Dumbledore look as 
bad as possible.

Next article could be about how nice Sirius Black holds absolutely no 
grudge towards Dumbledore or Ministry, hoping only to be finally 
cleared of his reputation...

Then, the pretty story about a group making themselves animagi in 
school to help their werewolf friend.

Article about Peter Pettigrew and Ministry's stupidity in believing 
the death-framing.

Tell about Peter Pettigrew living in Weasley household as a pet (a 
little bit against Weasleys once more)

Tell about Peter Pettigrew's escape from Sirius Black.

Tell about Peter Pettigrew WILLINGLY giving his own flesh to restore 
Voldemort, taking Harry Potter's blood.

Harry Potter: "Sirius is only one who cares for me"... Let everyone 
know what sort of people the Dursleys are...

She's into a *series* of articles on Sirius Black's innosence! I 
think she'll do that. Sirius will FINALLY face a trial (Rita Skeeter 
will write about that, of course, emphasis on how the ministry failed 
to give him one in the first place).

With Rita's help, Sirius will be cleaned, not only legally, but also 
by public opinion. All he has to do, is *register* as an animagus 
after the trial. Rita writes an article what a nasty process poor 
Sirius Black had to go trough just to be law-abiding, and how all 
requirement for animagi-registration should be out...

Sirius would get a trial without Pettigrew - (necessary if we want to 
keep up excitement).
Harry might sneak into seeing Sirius, unable to stand the wait and 
attempt to get Sirius out- but Sirius refuses because he *gave his 
word*, tells Harry all about when James Potter saved Severus Snape's 
life... and what not. Maybe we hear about a life-debt-trick JP used 
to keep SS quiet about Moony? Harry does such a trick on Pettigrew 
and thus gets Sirius to freedom for good!

-- Finwitch