Dumbledore's bad descisions?

[catherinemckiernan]

No: HPFGUIDX 94027

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snapesmate" <snapesmate at h...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "suehpfan" <stanleys at s...> 
> wrote:
> > Snipped stuff not about the bike!

Lynette wrote:

> Sirius DID want to take Harry, but Hagrid told him no, that 
Professor 
> Dumbledore had told him to bring Harry to him.  That's when Sirius 
> gave/loaned him the motorbike.  AFTER Hagrid says he is taking 
> Harry.  I think Sirius felt now that with James and Lily were dead, 
> betrayed by ratboy, AND without Harry his godson...  wait a minute, 
> back the bike up...  WHY would Sirius say he wouldn't need his bike 
> anymore?!  Because James and Lily were dead?  Because ratboy was a 
> Voldemort butt kisser?  Because he had mistakenly thought Remus the 
> spy?  Because Dumbledore would not let him have Harry?  I don't 
think 
> so...  I could see him giving up the bike IF he was going to have 
an 
> infant to tote around, but at that point he wasn't.

I'd have thought on the contrary, the Bike is helpful if Sirius takes 
Harry as Sirius then has to carry a child (there's no absolute 
evidence that one can't apparate carrying a child, but the fact that 
James shouts to Lily "Take Harry and run" would suggest to me that 
one can't), which transport would make easier. Once Sirius realises 
that Hagrid is taking HArry, he has lost everything; the Potters, 
James and Lily, Peter, probably even Lupin; he's got nothing left to 
do but go after Peter. The bike will help get Harry to safety, but 
Sirius is past caring about himself.

Poor man.

Catherine McK