A theory regarding the "innocence" of Sirius Black an...

[anakinbester <anakinbester@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50920

Oryomai wrote

> That could be the point.  We gained trust for Sirius in PoA...maybe 
it's a 
> leap of faith.  Kinda like in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 
(?) when he 
> has to "leap" across the cavern.  There could be another Shrieking 
Shack type 
> show down.  Harry could be shown some new evidence and has to 
decide whether 
> he still fully trusts Sirius.  Make a leap of faith so to speak.  
Could be a 
> big turning point ... for everyone.
> 

Funny you should bring this up. We PISA members over on FAP (Peter Is 
Sympathetic Association) brought up the possibility of a guilty 
Sirius recently. I think we all agreed that there probably won't be a 
switch like that, but as I said, none of the book by book villains 
have been who the same to be, so why should the villains for the over 
all story be so clear cut?

Webba I believe pointed out, among other things that Trelawny 
specifically says Voldemort's servant was chained. *shrugs* In a more 
literal than figurative sense that does seem to fit Sirius better 
than Peter. But then again, it's a prediction. Those are never 
literal. Wouldn't it have been nice though if she could have just 
named the servant =P

Moving on, there are two incidences in which Peter speaks like a semi 
rational human being. (as opposed to muttering and mumbling etc) One 
is when he finally admits  his guilt, and again when he accuses 
Sirius of being a spy (and having dark powers) Now this could be seen 
as trying to convince people that it was Sirius. But if that's the 
case, why doesn't he speak with such conviction on his own innocence. 
We have once incidents of him lying forcefully, the rest of the time, 
he can't get three words together to form the lie. Perhaps he simply 
fell apart as no one was believing him (but then again, arghh if he 
was a spy for a year, he should have some skill at lying) It could 
also be taken as a moment when Peter told the truth. 

Now I admit, two of James's friends being DE"s, seems highly unlikely 
(but then so did Rita being an illegal animagi)
But, What if Sirius was, if not working for Voldemort, involved in 
Dark Magic? We know from Snape that Black did try to kill him. 
Honestly I don't know what the whole situation was, but that's not 
normally what you do to someone even if you hate them, and Sirius 
showed no remorse about it even later.  So to me that's always 
indicated that Sirius might not be as calm and levelheaded as he 
comes off in GoF. 

So maybe there is some disturbing secret awaiting us about Sirius 
Black. 

-Ani
Spell checked this one =P Hopefully it helped