Sirius - who is right?

[naamagatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 73591

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marinafrants" <rusalka at i...> 
wrote:

Short of throwing him back into 
> Azkaban, I can't think of anything more cruel Dumbledore could've 
> done to him.

There's just an itsy bitsy little problem with this: it was *Sirius* 
who offered the house to the Order. He said (bitterly, if I remember 
correctly), that it was the only thing he could do to help. So, 
although he did indeed suffer locked in that house, nobody made him 
do it or even asked him to put himself in that situation. 

As I see it, Dumbledore isn't being cruel, but is again merely shown 
as fallible: he is not able to a) predict every outcome and b) solve 
every problem. Sirius made a certain choice. The consequences of that 
choice proved to be too much for him to handle. It is certainly cruel 
that he had to suffer so much on top of all that he has gone through 
already. But that's fate, not Dumbledore.

Naama