Sirius again (was Re: Evans, Dumbledore and (again)Sirius)

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 105028

Amey wrote, about Sirius :
> I am not saying his faults are acceptable, but I will say it once 
> more, his choices were made *for* him, not *by* him. And in WW, its 
> your choices that define you.

Del replies :
Sirius chose to have Peter be Secret Keeper rather than himself.
Sirius chose to track down Peter on his own rather than tell the story
and gather help (and how did he find Peter anyway ?)
Sirius chose to obey Harry when Harry asked him not to kill Peter.
And so on.
I'm not saying all those choices were bad, most definitely not ! But
Sirius did make choices, and he had to live through the consequences.
(One could even argue that he chose to remain in Azkaban for 12 years.
He could have escaped and lived as Padfoot. But if the Dementors made
him feel depressed, he probably didn't see the point of it. Not much
of a choice.)

Amey wrote :
> In pensieve scene, he defended James, he didn't attack Snape on his 
> own. And he won there, is it bad to win? 

Del replied :
Yes, it's bad to win when you're attacking two against one without
provocation. You got the scene wrong : James and Sirius attacked Snape
together, Sirius wasn't defending James at all.

Amey wrote :
> There are other people (James) who were worse than him and still are 
> thought of to be very good people. Why this injustice?

Del replies :
Because Sirius sent Snape to the Shack, and James risked his own life
to get Snape back from the Shack in time. Sirius sent Snape to his
death, James saved Snape's life at the potential price of his own life. 

Del