A theory regarding the "innocence" of Sirius Black and the Redemption of Peter

[kiricat2001 <Zarleycat@aol.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50835

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "webba28 <jrwajw at g...>" 
<jrwajw at g...> wrote:
> Hi! I am painstakingly researching possible signs of redemption for 
> Peter for the roundtable I am *hoping* is accepted for Nimbus. In 
my 
> reading, I have discovered a couple of things and would like to 
pose 
> a theory. 


> Dumbledore also states to Harry and Hermione that "two innocent 
lives 
> can be saved tonight." He never says Black specifically.... 


I know a number of other folks have commented on this post, so I 
won't go over the same ground.  However, I don't think anyone 
mentioned the scene between Dumbledore and Harry the next day, right 
after Lupin resigned his position and left the school.

Dumbledore says "Why so glum, Harry?".."You should be proud of 
yourself after last night."

"It didn't make any difference".."Pettigrew got away."

"Didn't make any difference?" said Dumbledore quietly. "It made all 
the difference in the world, Harry. You helped uncover the truth. You 
saved an innocent man from a terrible fate."

Now, although Dumbledore again mentions no names, who else can he be 
talking about here, except Sirius? What other man had a terrible fate 
hanging over him the previous night?

 
> After all this research, I find myself not wholly convinced that 
> Sirius Black is as innocent as he seems to be at the end of PoA. 
> Wormtail's no paragon of virtue, either, but something about Sirius 
> doesn't sit well with me. I can't put my finger on it though. 

I won't say that Sirius is a paragon of virtue, either, but at this 
point in the story I think it's pretty clear that Dumbledore now 
realizes that there was a switch of Secret Keepers and that Sirius 
was imprisoned for crimes he didn't commit. 

Have we convinced you?

Marianne