[HPforGrownups] Sirius reservations

[Nadia Kennedy]

No: HPFGUIDX 79865

B Arrowsmith <arrowsmithbt at btconnect.com> wrote:

Things have been quiet, my life insurance is fully paid up and no-one 
has rubbished me for, oh, at least a week. I tried checking past posts 
for previous thoughts on these lines, but there's thousands of entries 
for Sirius. No matter. Time to stir up a hornets nest.

(A good cut)

Hmm. More holes than the local golf course.

Needless to say -  I have a theory. Well, a partial theory. What if 
Sirius is not just an Animagus but also an unwitting catspaw. Maybe he 
was sprung from Azkaban - 'accidentally'  let loose by the influence of 
friends of You-know-who in the Ministry and hotly pursued by Dementors. 
The Ministry instructs Dementors after all. And what  a coincidence! We 
think Black will be around Hogwarts, just where Harry is!   But the 
Dementors have modified orders. Don't worry about Black - Get Potter!
Umbridge must have got her idea from somewhere, she's nasty but hardly 
an original thinker.



Another thought provoking post, Kneasy.
 
After I read your argument, I paged through PoA and looked up the relevant scenes, and realized that you are on to something here. There are more holes in Sirius's story than holes in Lupin's robes. I think you're going to need an acronym! ;)

But what really ticked me off about the whole Life and Death of Sirius was how JKR made him act so different than he had in the other books. The first time I read about Sirius' mood swings and anti-social behavior , a tiny voice inside my head said "She's going to off Sirius!" When it finally happened, I was disappointed in how crappy a death it was. I mean with Sirius, I expected something somewhat spectacular, not just a glad-he's-dead-now sort of thing. I know that JKR liked Sirius, so maybe she was just "distancing" herself from his death, but still, I feel more than a little betrayed by how she did it.

Nadia