[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's role in Sirius' death was Re: ESE!Snape (Was...

[Batchevra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 98981

In a message dated 5/20/04 7:45:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
arrowsmithbt at btconnect.com writes:
Really?

This would imply that Sirius knew in advance that Harry would be 
meeting Voldemort in the Ministry, or at least that he would be
meeting Voldy fairly soon. That's post facto rationisation IMO.

Regular readers of my burblings will know that I am not a great
fan of Sirius; I don't consider him to be a hero at all. Last year
there were a series of threads that covered this and I  stated
that Sirius is a rotten role model for Harry and that  he would
not be considered an admirable character by most *males*. The
distaff side may  regard him differently, but they always seem to
have a soft spot for flawed 'heroes'. 

Let me present the case for the prosecution by considering just
what Sirius has done, achieved or inspired.

If our first view of Sirius had  been the one shown in 'Snape's worst 
Memory' what would our impression of him be? Not nice at all.
Consider the passages in which he is described:
(snip)

In how we see Sirius for the first time in Snape's Pensieve memory, you 
forgot what Sirius and James did in the first part. They both ask Remus about 
Werewolf question on the OWL exam, and when Remus makes a joke about it, they both 
laugh with him, Wormtail doesn't laugh. 

Why is it that you forget about the good part of the Pensieve moment and 
focus all on the bad part. What I see in that memory is that James and Sirius show 
how good they were, how bad they were, and how they were teens at that point. 

Batchevra


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