Why didn't DD visit Sirius in Azkaban ? (was Cedric and Pettigrew )

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 91807

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_reader2003" wrote:

 That's another curious point. Sirius had been banged up in Azkaban 
> for 12 years. Why has DD NOT gone to visit him, at least to get 
> Sirius's version of events, even if he can't get him out ? I can't 
> believe DD wasn't able to get permission to do this if he wanted 
to, 
> as head of Wizengamot, Chief Mugwump etc etc. I find myself torn 
> between two possible explanations:
> 
> (a) Dumbledore as bumbling old twit, who doesn't have much of a 
grip 
> on what's really going on, and thought Sirius really had betrayed 
the 
> Potters, despite knowing how close James and Sirius had been all 
> their lives. (After all, this is the supposedly amazingly all-
> powerful wizard who didn't manage to spot Voldy tied up in a turban 
> on Quirrells head, despite the funny smell and Snape's suspicion).
> 
> (b) Dumbledore the puppet master, who finds it convenient to have 
> Sirius locked up, as he knew Sirius would recognise Scabbers as 
soon 
> as he saw him in Ron's pocket, and for reasons we don't know, 
> Dumbledore did not want that to happen - perhaps because he thought 
> it might precipitate Voldy's return before Harry was ready for him. 

Marianne replies:

Both scenarios have been kicked about a bit, so I guess it all 
depends on what one's lasting impression of Dumbledore is.  For all 
we know DD might have gone to Azkaban and happened to arrive on a day 
when Sirius was in the depths of Dementor torture and simply couldn't 
offer DD any explanation.  Thus, DD leaves, thinking Sirius has gone 
mad.  Absolutely no canon support, but we'll have to wait for further 
clues from Herself in the next 2 books.

a_reader: 
> There is a remark DD made somewhere which I can't quite find at the 
> moment, which intimates that he did know MWPP were animagi all 
along. 

Marianne:
Ummm, I'm not sure about that.  In Chap 22 of PoA, DD says to Harry " 
Last night Sirius told me all about how they became Animagi...An 
extraordinary achievement - not least, keeping it quiet from me."

I interpret DD here saying he didn't know what MWPP were up to.  
ALthough, as DD often shades his meaning, this isn't a flat-out 
statement that he didn't suspect at the time that they were up to 
something. Maybe he did suspect, for some reason, that they were 
attempting to become Animagi.  But, when they then didn't flaunt that 
ability openly, nor end up in the Hospital wing caught in some sort 
of transformation-gone-wrong, he may have thought that his original 
suspicions were groundless or that they gave up the attempt.

On the other hand, why wouldn't MWPP have told DD about their 
Animagus status once they were in the original Order?  Couldn't the 
ability of people to turn into a dog or a rat come in handy at times? 
(A stag is more problematic as that disguise would be no disguise at 
all waltzing through London.) So, what's up with that?

Marianne, with more questions