Trusting characters Re: bullies? twins, padfoot and prongs

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No: HPFGUIDX 118872


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" <susiequsie23 at s...> 
wrote:
> 
> To me, it seems pretty natural for a take-charge, action-oriented guy 
> like Sirius, who I truly believe loved James like a brother & Lily 
> about as much, who was godfather to Harry, to have taken off to 
> investigate.  We don't know exactly how he arrived there; we don't 
> know whether he arrived right smack dab out there in the open or 
> whether he planned to sneak up surreptitiously...until he saw the 
> demolished house.  So I guess I don't think he needs to be let off 
> the hook for anything much, really, in *this* scene. 
> 

Kneasy:
Don't know how he got here?
Motorbike, surely.
That's  what Hagrid  borrowed to transport Harry to Privet Drive IIRC.

Now how someone can be sneaking around on a machine that can be 
heard half-a-mile away defeats me. He might as well have put an advert
in the Daily Prophet. Hardly surreptitious.

To my mind the most interesting question is "why did he arrange to
meet Peter?" For his plan to work all contact should be broken, nothing
should link Sirius to any of the Potter's *other* friends, 'cos if Sirius
can't be found, what's Voldy gonna do? Check up on the others, of
course; Sirius could be hiding out with them.

No; I prefer to think that checking up on Peter was more than just
normal activity. Peter missing would mean Voldy had struck and
Sirius could arrive at GH with a suitably shocked expression. Sirius
may be able to salve his conscience by saying he didn't betray James
and Lily directly, but I do  think it probable that he pointed Voldy in 
the direction of Peter or already knew that Peter was in Voldy's pocket.