[HPforGrownups] Re: Some Serious points in favour of Sirius

[Marny Helfrich]

No: HPFGUIDX 104409

> Andromeda here:
>  Well, Sirius did drag Ron into the Shrieking Shack and break his
> leg, right?  I suspect that is the act for which he might want to
> apologize.  Although I think he did apologize.  But I, too, think he
> just wanted to give Harry a nice present after being out of touch so
> many years and to say "thanks for saving my soul from being sucked
> out of my body". He did give Ron the owl (Pig) as a consolation prize.
>

But in the book he gives Harry the firebolt long before he attacks them at
the Shrieking Shack and long before Harry saves him from the dementors,
right?  He sends it to him for Christmas, after the attack on the Fat Lady
(which was on Halloween), but before the "attack" on Ron/Scabbers in the
dorm (using the stolen passwords), which was after the match in which Harry
takes down Malfoy et al with his Patronus.

I do think that the fact that Sirius was able to buy it "with money from my
Gringott's vault" without attracting attention (since he was on the lam at
the time) is one of the bits of "magical hand-waving" in the book that
doesn't bear up if you think about it too much.

Marny