Trusting characters Re: bullies? twins, padfoot and prongs

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 118876


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.

SSSusan:
Yes, the *mechanism* was the motorbike.  And though Finwitch makes a 
good point about the possibility of silencing it, as the FA was made 
invisible, I was really referring to whether he burst upon the scene, 
loud & "intact" as it were, seen by all, or whether he might have 
taken some precaution against being seen/heard.  For instance, Sirius 
could have ridden the motorbike to w/in a certain distance, then 
transformed into Padfoot and bounded the rest of the way.  He'd be 
disguised then, no?

 
Kneasy:
> > 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.
 
Finwitch:
> I don't think it was. Sirius needs to check on Peter in order to 
> find out if he's captured so that Potters could possibly be warned 
> in time. 

SSSusan:
That's a fair question, Kneasy, and one which would need to be 
answered if Sirius is to be "forgiven."  I am assuming that Sirius 
didn't *hang around* with Peter & the Potters' other friends once FC 
was in place, but rather that the meeting w/ Peter was planned to be 
brief and clandestine, at a secluded and/or protected spot.  

I also think Finwitch has given a reasonable answer here for why 
Sirius might have arranged the meeting.  It may seem stupid to have 
wanted to check on Peter, but I think Sirius saw it precisely as the 
back-up protection for J/L/H that Finwitch mentions.


Kneasy:
> 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.

SSSusan:
Oh, you're such an incorrigible conspiracy theorist! ;-)

And I prefer to take Sirius at his word and to believe that he was 
truly horror-struck and grieved by the deaths of J&L and hysterically 
bent upon retribution when he dashed off to find Peter, whom he (for 
the first time) suspected of disloyalty.

That's my story, anyway.

Siriusly Snapey Susan