Lupin visiting Sirius in Azkaban

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 111620

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mrs_sonofgib" 
<tinainfay at m...> wrote:

> Tina here again:
> A better question might be - why didn't DD visit Sirius?  He was 
the  one to initiate the Secret Keeper set up.  If it went badly 
wrong,  wasn't he obligated to figure out what happened?  He 
has the clout  to go to Azkaban if anyone does, I would think.  I 
guess we're back to DD the puppetmaster.  <


 DD had been trying for some time to figure out which of the 
Potter's friends was the spy. It was because he hadn't been able 
to do it that he volunteered to be Secret Keeper himself. He did 
not approve of the choice of Sirius as SK. 

DD told us himself -- Sirius didn't act like an innocent man.  In 
truth, none of the Marauders were innocent. Three of them were 
illegal animagi, and all of them had risked exposing innocent 
people to a werewolf.

As Elkins pointed out in one of her brilliant posts long ago, the 
ex-Marauders were all keeping secrets from Dumbledore. It was 
easy for the spy, or spies, to take advantage of their old habits of 
secrecy and covering up for one another. 
   
After his escape, why did Sirius go after Peter himself instead of 
sending an Owl to Dumbledore telling him everything? 
Apparently he never thought of it. The old habit of secrecy was 
too much engrained.  He never really outgrew his schoolboy 
ethic--loyalty to your chums above all else. He couldn't speak 
without giving Lupin away, too.

Pippin