[HPforGrownups] Re: Responsability for Sirius's Death

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 84609


----- Original Message -----
From: "sachmet96" <sachmet96 at yahoo.co.uk>

> sachmet96:
> I don't see how this makes him not responsible for his own death. He
> knew not to leave the house but did it, the reason why he shouldn't
> leave it is unimportant imo. He left and dies, so it's his fault. If
> he hadn't died then his whereabouts would have been known and he
> would have endangered the people who where seen there with him

Me (K)

who was going to make his whereabouts known? Most of the DEs were escaed
prisoners, Voldemort was trying to pretend he didn't existy. That leaves
people like Lucius malfoy - who was in the building to try and kill Harry
Potter - how exactly were they going to report it to the Ministry?


He didn't run off in an irresponsible manner, he went with a well organized
rescue party, organized btw by the very people you are saying didn't want
him to leave the house, if they hadn't decided that it was OK for him to
come he wouldn't have arrived with them he'd have arrived alone. The fact is
that Sirius is Harry's godfather, the one thing he can still do for his best
friend is look after Harry. In his mind (and to some extent in the minds of
others - Dumbledore accepts permission slips from him, Molly wouldn't argue
about Harry's welfare with him if she felt it wasn't his concern) he is
responsible for Harry. it would have been irresponsible to let others go off
and risk their lives to rescue him and sit at home himself doing nothing
when he was (afawk) as capable as any of the others there and in no more
danger than any of them.


> Appart from that Snape contacted him to make sure he was at Grimmauld
> Place so Sirius would have known something was up and he shouldn't
> leave the house.
>

But Snape checked if he was there to see if Harry was right about him being
a prisoner at the MoM not to check if he was being a good little boy.

> >
> sachmet96
> No, because they had reason to be there, but Sirius hadn't. Indeed he
> had another task asigned to him (inform DD) but chose not to do it.
>

He had as much reason to be there as anyone else. Again he didn't run off
without informing anyone where he was going - the rest of the rescue party
knew he was there and if his staying behind had been as vital as you seem to
think then either they would have insisted he do it or assigned someone else
to do it. I would point out that you seem to think there were enough of them
without him there but they didn't defeat the bad guys easily by overwhelming
numbers, with one less person in the fight for the Order *more* people could
have died.

K