Sirius/Tonks

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 93908


I, Del, wrote :

> I've read the responses people gave to your post, and unless I 
> missed some, nobody asked the first and obvious question : how 
> would she know that ?
> And the consequent questions : would anyone else know it too 
> then ? 

Carol (justcarol67) answered :

> Dumbledore found out that Sirius was an animagus just after HRH 
> did, at the end of PoA. Voldemort presumably found out after Peter 
> found him in Albania. 

Del replies :

Oops ! I wasn't clear in my previous post. I was commenting on the 
theory that Bellatrix knew she wasn't fighting the true Sirius 
Black, but an Animagus in the shape of Sirius Black (Tonks). I was 
wondering how she could know that this Sirius wasn't the real 
Sirius, and whether anyone else would have noticed that too, in 
which case it would be very cruel not to tell Harry that it wasn't 
Sirius who was killed.

> > Del :
> <snip> 
> > I gave it some thought, and came up with quite a few reasons for 
> > Bellatrix to say "the Animagus Black".
> > 
> > 1. She was being redundant. It does happen. Or maybe Pippin (I 
> > think, sorry otherwise) is right, and it's all part of a 
> > specific speech pattern.
> 
> Carol:
> Erm, that was my post. :-)

(Del goes into hiding, her cheeks a brilliant shade of scarlet.)
I'm sorry Carol !!

Del