Cedric and Pettigrew (was Re: Faking Sirius' Death?)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91758

Ffred wrote:
<snip> Hagrid emerges from the wreckage having rescued Harry. Sirius
now appears on his bike, hotfoot from discovering that Peter has gone
AWOL. They talk, argue about who should take Harry, and then go their
separate ways: Hagrid and Harry to go into limbo for 24 hours and
Sirius to pursue Peter.
 
So. Why doesn't Sirius explain to Hagrid that Peter was the secret
keeper and the traitor? If he had, then he'd be in the clear and
there'd be no question of Azkaban. Peter would have found it
impossible to frame Sirius and disappear to commune with his rodent
side for the next 10 years, and the Dark Lord's return would have been
made that much more difficult.
 
Sirius really does bring it all on himself, don't you think?

Carol:
I think Sirius quite intentionally "brings it all on himself." First
off, we don't know that Hagrid knew anything about Sirius being the
ostensible Secret Keeper. I think if he'd mentioned it, Sirius would
have mentioned Peter. In any case, when Sirius discovered that he
wasn't going to be able to act as godfather to Harry because
Dumbledore had other plans, he must have felt that he had nothing more
to lose. He gave Hagrid his bike saying that he wouldn't need it any
more. Why not? Because being Sirius--reckless and angry to the point
of near-insanity--he was ready to risk death or Azkaban to kill the
traitorous ex-friend who had ruined his life. I don't think he wanted
to be "in the clear." He wanted revenge. We saw the same side of him
in PoA. All he wanted to do was escape Azkaban to commit the murder
he'd already served twelve years for, and it didn't matter what people
thought. He slashed a portrait and Ron's bed curtains and came after a
rat with a twelve-inch knife. Did he think Scabbers was going to morph
into Peter in a room full of sleeping boys so he could murder him
properly?

Sirius, IMO, has always had serious problems with emotional and
possibly mental instability, manifested in his teens by his lazy,
arrogant desire to be entertained by James's abuse of Severus and
especially by the so-called Prank and again in PoA and OoP by the
risks he takes and the value he places on risk-taking, which he
mistakes for courage. That he would leave the scene of Godric's Hollow
determined to murder Peter without telling anyone doesn't surprise me
at all, nor does his insane laughter as the aurors take him away or
his failure to defend himself when Crouch pronounced him guilty
without the benefit of a trial.

Carol