Sirius revisited. Character discussions

[smartone564]

No: HPFGUIDX 104234

Potioncat:
> The first post below was cut-and-pasted from up-thread
> Kneasy (I think)
> There is no evidence that he was particularly bright. By all
> accounts the
> > Animagus spell doesn't require brains, just practice to get it
> right.
> > If he was bright, it wouldn't have taken him 12 years to 
escape.


What do you mean by 'it took him'?  Sirius never escaped from 
Azkaban before, because he didn't have a driving need to.  LV 
wasn't active (supposedly dead, since Sirius was caught after 
GH), the DE's were hiding/ getting caught/ revealing themselves/ 
etc.  The only reason Sirius escaped at all was that he saw Peter 
(as Scabbers) in the newspaper Fudge brought to him.

smartone