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

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No: HPFGUIDX 91815


> Carolyn (following this renewed re-hash with great interest!):
> 
> 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:

<<snip DD as twit or mastermanipulator>>

The only person whom we know was allowed to visit someone 
in Azkaban was Crouch, and Sirius says it was only because he 
was an important Ministry member. If  it takes a load of 
string-pulling for parents to visit their dying son , permission 
might not be readily granted even to Dumbledore. It's not clear 
whether Dumbledore was head of the Wizengamot at that time. 
He doesn't seem to have any special position at the Pensieve 
trials.

Dumbledore is very reluctant to bend the rules for friendship's 
sake and he's sensitive to the appearance that he's interfering 
with the Ministry -- he let Fudge put Hagrid in Azkaban, though he 
believed that Hagrid was innocent.

 Dumbledore had concluded that Sirius was indeed the 
Secret-Keeper and guilty. If Sirius was the spy, he'd been 
deceiving Dumbledore the Legilimens for upwards of twelve 
months, so Dumbledore was unlikely to think he could establish 
Sirius's innocence just by questioning him. 

 Veritaserum? It might have been used.  Sirius blamed himself 
for James and Lily's deaths. Supposing he was questioned as 
to whether he was responsible for leading Voldemort to them, he 
might well have said Yes. 


Pippin