What if Sirius Hadn't Escaped in POA?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 102094

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Barbara D. Poland-Waters" <bd-
bear at v...> wrote:

snip.


> Suppose Sirius, after having seen the Daily Prophet with Peter on 
it, kept
> his need for revenge in check and somehow got Fudge to allow DD to 
visit him
> (or get word to him that Sirius needed to tell him something). DD 
goes to
> Sirius, Sirius tells him that Pettigrew is alive and is Ron's rat, 
DD calls
> Ron to his office, requesting (as nonchalantly as possible) that he 
bring
> his pet, DD forces Pettigrew to reveal himself and then uses his 
Leglimens
> (sorry if I'm not spelling that right) skills to determine that 
Pettigrew
> did indeed betray the Potters and Sirius is innocent.
> 
> In fact, if DD is so all-knowing and all powerful, how come he 
can't do this
> more often? I mean, now that I know he has these abilities, I 
assume he has
> used this power whenever he has talked to Harry after Harry's been 
in
> trouble, and that's why he trusts Harry, because he knows that 
Harry hasn't
> lied about the important stuff. Moreover, I would assume that Snape 
would
> also use this ability on his students to check if they're lying, 
but then, I
> don't get the feeling he WANTS to know that Harry is truthful at 
the times
> Snape is accusing him of being otherwise.
> 
> But then again, I'm only in the beginning of OOTP. While I vaguely 
remember
> reading in some of the posts on this list that the ability to do 
that
> Leglimens thingy is rare, I don't know if it's frowned upon in the 
WW as an
> invasion of privacy. If that's the case, that would explain why 
it's not
> done more.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Barbara, who's disappointed that nobody has yet responded to her 
post "Some
> comments/questions about GoF"
> bd-bear



Hi, Barbara!


I usually don't engage in "what ifs" for totally different reasons. 
Because if I do, I sometimes come to the conclusion that JKR's 
plotting is not as tight as i want to think. :o)


The obvious example, when it comes to Sirius, is of course, why was 
not he given veritaserum, before they sent him to Azkaban. Yes, this 
question was discussed here a lot and different reasons were offered 
(veritaserum being a rare potion, hard to brew, etc.)

But I felt that these are just excuses we came up for JKR another 
plot goof. :o)


Coming back to your "what if". I frankly don't think that dumbledore 
would wanted to visit Sirius. Remember that he testified against 
Sirius at his hearing? Obviously he was convinced that Sirius was 
guilty. I am not sure he would have come to Sirius. :o)


Alla