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

[KathyK]

No: HPFGUIDX 81789

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.  <snip>  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.<<

Tanya:

>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.<

KathyK, this time around:

Oh, I don't think she ever believed he was loyal to LV, personally.  
No evidence, really, as to why.  Just a feeling.  I only put in the 
possibility that Mrs. Black may have thought Sirius did support 
Voldemort to show that the current portrait could still know Sirius 
was the traitor to the family she thought he was before Pettigrew 
betrayed him.  

But now I'm thinking that it still fits.  Mrs. Black blasted Sirius 
off the tree for leaving.  At first, the Blacks thought Voldemort 
and his beliefs were just dandy.  Then they saw what Voldemort was 
really about.  They even lost their loyal child, Regulus, to 
Voldemort.  So even if Mrs. Black believed Sirius was the big bad 
Death Eater the rest of the world thought he was, she may not have 
put him back on the family tree because he supported a crazed mass 
murderer who may hold the same sort of world views, but who took it 
too far and even murdered the good Black son, Regulus. 

KathyK