Trusting characters Re: bullies? twins, padfoot and prongs

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No: HPFGUIDX 118878


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> wrote:
> 
> Finwitch:
> How do you know the bike doesn't have a silencer? It runs on magic, 
> not gas - and since they can make things invisible (Ford Anglia has 
> Invisibility Booster, set in by Arthur Weasley - I'm positive Sirius' 
> bike has one, too), making things silent should be easy.
>

Kneasy: 
PS/SS chap.1 
A low rumbling sound had broken the silence around them. It grew
steadily louder as they looked up and down the street for some sign
of a headlight; it swelled to a roar as they both looked up at the sky
- and a huge motorbike fell out of  the air and landed in the road in 
front of 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. (And don't forget their animagus ability, as a rat *hiding* is 
> pretty easy for Peter). Peter may have been hiding in a rat-nest, in 
> (seemingly) abandoned barn-house full of rats or whatever. No, Sirius 
> went to check on him on a pre-arranged place on pre-arranged time 
> (possibly agreed upon when the FC was set). Peter wasn't there, so 
> Sirius gets to the Potters. And - since there WAS hope for Sirius to 
> find James & Lily & Harry alive if he was quick enough, so he *can't* 
> waste time in alerting anyone.
> 

Kneasy:
Sorry, it's all too convenient -  for Sirius.
There is zero back-up for any part of the tale he tells about that night.
I don't trust him.

I understand that there're loads of fans that think Sirius is a slightly 
dented tragi-hero; they *want* him to be innocent. But until there's
some *objective* evidence or support from his story from a trustworthy
character, I'm gonna keep my scepticism polished.

Besides, it's entertaining countering the Siriophiles.

 
> And how do we know that Pettigrew's hiding-place wasn't ALSO under 
> FC, with Sirius as SK?

Kneasy:
You really believe that?