Mrs. Black, Sirius a traitor, flint? (was Re: A Number of Questions)

[Tanya Swaine]

No: HPFGUIDX 81780

KathyK:
>I don't believe it's a flint at all.  Even if she believed Sirius
>went to Azkaban a loyal Voldemort supporter, there's no way her
>portrait would believe that now.  He showed up at Grimmauld Place
>with Dumbledore the lover of all beings, Lupin the werewolf, Tonks
>whose mother betrayed the Black family by marrying a muggle born,
>Hermione the muggleborn, and the muggle-loving Weasleys, not to
>mention hosting Harry Potter who brought down Voldemort all those
>years ago.  The portrait of Mrs. Black would have to be completely
>blind not to notice this out of place group in her home, hosted by
>her own son.  So Sirius was obviously the traitor he always was.  It
>makes sense to me, at any rate.


One thing doesn't quite fit there.  She did blast him off the family tree
when he left home, and if she believed he had changed and been LV's
right hand man, surely would have reinstated him.

Tanya