Sirius - who is right?

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 73776

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marinafrants" 
<rusalka at i...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > But that's exactly what Dumbledore did order Sirius to do.  To 
sit
> > around and do nothing, while Harry was in danger and the rest of 
> the
> > Order were out risking their lives.  And the rationale behind 
it?  
> To
> > preserve Sirius' physical safety.  "We don't need you, we just 
> need 
> > your house.  If you insist on sticking around, do some dusting 
or 
> > something. But hey, look at the bright side, at least you're 
> *safe*!"
> > 
> Well, he certainly doesn't have to put up with *that* taunt 
> anymore.  I would have thought that just staying alive for Harry's 
> sake might have been worth something to Sirius.  

Given that Sirius sat in that house for a year, I'd say it meant a 
hell of a lot to him.  He left only when Harry's life was in 
immediate danger.  As others have pointed out, the Order members 
were seriously outnumbered by the DEs in that confrontation.  
Staying alive for the sake of your kid becomes kind of meaningless 
if the kid himself is dead.


> By the way, when Snape wanted him to stay at GP and let the others 
> go the MoM, he wasn't suggesting it just to be a bastard.  If I 
> recall, he wanted Sirius there to tell Dumbledore what was going 
> on.  Since Sirius wouldn't stay, nobody was there when Dumbledore 
> did arrive, except Kreacher. So instead of getting the news 
> instantly, he had to drag it out of an unwilling House Elf. How 
long 
> did that take?  Twenty minutes?  It certainly slowed Dumbledore 
> down.  If not for Sirius leaving the place unmanned, he might have 
> gotten there before the DEs were running amok, torturing Neville 
and 
> generally causing havoc.

All of which could've been achieved if somebody had just thought to 
owl Dumbledore a note.  

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com