Sirius' knife. Who attacked who?

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 59395

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> 
> bboy_mn:
> 
> Grey Wolf, I save "That's my story and I'm sticking to it." for long
> winded, overstated, highly opinionated post. That's my story and I'm
> sticking to it.
> 
> The Gun-
> I always took the 'gun' part as something added to make the Muggles
> think that Black was extremely dangerous, and that they shouldn't
> approach him or try to capture him themselves.
> 
> The Knife-
> Well, all evidence points to the knife, but it is questionable who 
was
> wielding the knife.

I'm confused here.  Are you suggesting that someone else slashed the 
Fat Lady?  Granted, we only have Peeves comment about Sirius' nasty 
temper, we don't actually hear from the Fat Lady herself, but I tend 
to believe Ron when he says he saw Sirius looming over him with a 
knife in his hands.

> The Scene-
> PoA Chapter 21 AmEd HB Pg 392: Dumbledore has just talked with 
Sirius
> and is now in the hospital wing where he throws everyone out so he 
can
> talk in private to Harry and Hermione. As soon as they are alone,
> Harry and Hermione both start talking at once desperatly trying to
> explain what happened. It goes something like this-
> 
> "-- Professor, Black's telling the truth -- we /saw/ Pettigrew--"
> "-- he escaped when Professor Lupin turned into a werewolf--"
> "-- he's a rat --"
> "-- Pettigrew's front paw, I mean, finger, he cut it off--"
> Now the important one.
> "-- Pettigrew attacked Ron, it wasn't Sirius --"
> 
> Pettigrew attacked Ron? 

> Are they excited and confused? 
> 
> Is it a desperate attempt to shift blame from Sirius? 
> 
> Are they desperately grasping at straws, or did Peter attack Ron?

 
 IIRC, Peter did attack Ron. Once Remus started to transform into a 
werewolf, he dropped his wand and broke free or slid out of the 
manacles attaching him to Peter.  At that point didn't Peter seize 
that chance to do something to Ron to knock him out before turning 
into Wormtail and scurrying off?  Sirius was busy first with grabbing 
Harry to keep him away from Remus and then Padfoot-ing to try to keep 
the werewolf away from the kids.

Marianne