Sirius: Much Ado About Nothing

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 73505

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mkaliz" <kai_z at o...> wrote:

<major snip of reasoned discussions from both parties on Sirius>
 
> But. No matter how hard I try to like the guy, I keep coming back to
> the fact that he was willing to betray a good friend and 
deliberately
> put that friend directly in harm's way. (It's no wonder that people
> thought him capable of betraying the Potters. He'd already betrayed
> one deadly secret!)

I'm not going to argue with you here. Especially as your previous 
statements show that you can empathize with Sirius - you just don't 
like him and the prank is the think that did it for you. Fair enough. 
I'm still not convinced we have the whole story of the prank, but God 
knows I don't want to start another rabid discussion about it.  
That's the thing that put Sirius over the line for you, and you can 
reasonably use canon to support that. So, I'm fine with that.

I do agree with your thought that this was an instance that people 
could look back to at the time of the Potters' deaths, or just 
before, and it could make them think that Sirius was the traitor.  
Add to that that his brother was a DE for a time, and he came from a 
family that at least paid lip-service to Voldemort's ideas, and, 
yeah, he could be considered suspicious by a lot of people.

> As a result, even when he seemed benevolent towards Harry, I was
> suspicious of his motives. Like when he encourages the trio to
> continue with the defense classes. It certainly wouldn't be in 
Harry,
> Ron, or Hermione's best interest--or in the case of Harry, in the
> Order's best interest!--to get expelled from school, no matter how
> important it was that they learn to defend themselves.
> 
> --kai

That particular incident didn't bother me so much.  I thought it was 
a risk worth taking.  

Marianne