Kreacher & The Prophecy (was Re: Kreacher)

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No: HPFGUIDX 92010

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" <susiequsie23 at s...> 
wrote:
> Am I reading your "Sirius has lost just about everything" paragraph 
> correctly?  It seems almost a sympathetic portrait...from YOU?!  But 
> are you saying that if Sirius gave IN to that, he'd have killed 
> himself, and that wasn't Sirius?  Are you saying that others knew he 
> needed to be eliminated?  I confess to being a little confused by 
> that last statement of yours.
> 

Sympathetic? To Sirius? Moi? Surely you jest.

No, it was more of a dispassionate accounting, a summing up of what 
Sirius had come to. No, I don't think that Sirius would really have ended
up alone in the library with a loaded wand, he's not that type. Self-
criticism would be alien to him, accepting responsibility for his actions
never seems to occur to him and his treatment of Kreachur and the 
fall-out from that is a good example. 

Musing about 'what if he had done this instead' is fascinating to many
on site, but it's not my favourite game. I prefer to  try and predict how
a character will act given what JKR has told us about him/her and how
they have behaved previously in given situations. 
When I wrote that given the characterisation that JKR had constructed
his actions seem pre-ordained, this wasn't so much 'JKR  has spoken'
as 'given what we know, I  think such a person is most likely to act or 
react thus.' 

With his ingrained tendency to rashness and intolerance of inactivity,
it seems inevitable that he would rush off on the rescue mission to the
Ministry. DD states that our decisions define us; when was the last
time Sirius made a thoughtful decision? It  all seems to be spur of the
moment  stuff, with no thought for the consequences. This is bloody
dangerous, and not just for Sirius. Consider, who at Hogwarts or the 
wider WW knew of the current association between Harry and Sirius
before he decided to accompany Harry to the station? Just the  Trio
and a few members of the Order. Afterwards, all the wrong people 
knew and it gave them an edge, a lever to shift Harry out of safety
into a dangerous situation. Kreachur's presumed revelations to other
members of the family told the DEs where Sirius was hiding and what
he was up to with the  Order, but it was Sirius who broadcast the 
connection between himself and Harry.

To anyone running covert operations the presence of someone like
Sirius would be a nightmare. A disaster waiting to happen. Given that
the fate of society hangs in the balance a calculating, cold-blooded
analyst might come to the conclusion that Sirius is safer as a fond
memory than as a potential time-bomb with an increasing influence
over the one regarded as star material. This is besides the possibility
that the results of previously unknown Sirius peccadiloes could cause
unforeseen devastation. So yes, it is possible that someone in the
Order  removed him from the scene - and who better  than the one
who probably knows him best - Lupin.

Et tu Brutus?

Kneasy