Some Serious points in favour of Sirius

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No: HPFGUIDX 104438

Smartone earlier:
 snip.

> > Who says Sirius ever attacked Ron?  True, he entered with force 
> > (but to a painting, not that hard for Filch to 'expertly' re-
finish), and 
> > was standing over Ron with a knife, but did he ever hurt Ron?  
> > Let me think..... uh..... Nope, never touched him


Kneasy:

> Apart from attacking Ron and breaking his leg as he dragged
> him into the tunnel under the Whomping Willow, you mean?
  

Alla:

He was wrong here, no doubt about that, but here is my dreaded 
response again about just being out of Azkaban, driven by revenge, 
pain,etc.. :)

Besides, he regrets that and  he tries to make it up to Ron at the 
end of PoA:

"I thought your friend Ron might like to keep this owl, as it's my 
fault he no longer has a rat", PoA, p.434, americal edition