[HPforGrownups] Re: Lupin visiting Sirius in Azkaban

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 111810

>   LadyKat now:
> Any ideas? I just cannot accept the idea that DD NEVER looked
> into the GH/Sirius betrayal/PP murder more thouroughly. The idea
> that he just blindly accepted the party line is almost sacriligious
> (in my mind) :)) Maybe he felt that the safest place for Sirius to
> be was in Azkaban? We know that he (DD) was willing to have Harry
> grow up in a place that was quite unpleasant, just to ensure his
> survival. So why not extend the same logic to Sirius? DD may have
> felt that in order to keep Sirius alive (maybe to protect him from
> himself - he is well-known for acting first and thinking second),
> he needed to be locked up. Yes - it stinks - but Sirius will
> survive.


I don't think Dumbledore was protecting Sirius by putting him in
storage in Azkaban.  It was never Dumbledore's job to determine
Sirius' guilt or not, and Dumbledore had James Potter's assurance
that Sirius would never betray him and his family as Secret-Keeper. 
There was no reason for Dumbledore to suspect that the entire set-up
wasn't what it appeared to be.  

And Sirius never helped himself - either at the time or during POA. 
He was fixated both times on getting his hands on Pettigrew rather
than on coming up with a rational (ie, telling someone else or at
least leaving a freaking note) explanation for everyone else.  And
while I know that he was in the grip of great emotion, had just been
betrayed by someone he thought a friend, was grieving for James and
Lily, etc. etc. - that doesn't explain why he didn't have more of a
clue in POA.  

A better question IMO would be - why did so many people who KNEW that
Sirius and James were like brothers, etc. etc. believe that Sirius
was still capable of the most brutal, treacherous betrayal
imaginable?  Why did Remus believe it?  Why did Dumbledore?  What was
it about Sirius that made it credible that he would sign up with
Voldemort?  

Was it his family background? Did people say "Well, turns out he was
a Real Black all along"?  Or was it his way of looking at things?  In
OOTP he's all in favour of the idea of Dumbledore's Army because
there's no way he and James would not have ragged "a hag" like
Umbridge while they were students.  (And his support for the idea
makes Hermione doubt it even though it was her idea in the first
place.)  Did people wonder about his judgement?

Magda


		
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