Dumbledore's role in Sirius' death was Re: ESE!Snape (Was loads of other stuff)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 98631

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> Sorry, I don't buy that Dumbledore could not find ANYTHING 
>useful for Sirius to do.
> 
> He thought it was perfectly fine for Sirius to go notify Old Crowd 
after GoF, now suddenly in OoP it is not safe for him to go out as 
a  Padfoot?<
> 
> And sorry for being repetitive but such things as invisibility 
>cloaks  do exist for a reason. :o)

There was only one invisibility cloak available (Moody's spare 
was lost with Podmore) and it was being used to guard the 
Prophecy. I don't agree that it was safe for Sirius to notifiy the
old crowd--it was a calculated risk that was undertaken only 
because there was an immediate danger and no time to set up 
safer ways of communication. All the surviving members of the 
old crowd had to be alerted of Voldemort's return ASAP. 
Voldemort now had the means to go after them and no need to 
hide the source of his information. Once his task was done, 
Sirius was instructed to lie low at Lupin's. 

Are you saying that Sirius only wanted to fight because 
he was feeling useless? I thought he felt useless because he 
thought fighting was the only worthwhile thing to do. 

And  he couldn't be used as a spy because: 

a) the Padfoot disguise was blown
b) As a human, he had the wrong personality for it. He couldn't 
resist drawing attention to himself -- kind of like Harry throwing 
mud at Malfoy in Hogsmeade.

But I could be wrong.

Pippin