Lupin visiting Sirius in Azkaban

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 111814

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathi Russell" 
<krussell98 at c...> wrote:
> 
>    It does seem, on the surface, to make NO sense whatsoever, 
for DD to not have investigated the events at GH more 
thouroughly and to be more certain of Sirius' guilt. Knowing DD 
as we _think_ we do, it in no way adds up to a logical chain of 
events.
> 

What was there to investigate, though? James and Lily had been 
in hiding for a week. So had Sirius and Peter. No one had seen 
them, so there were no witnesses to their movements prior to 
the attack on the Potters. Lupin would testify that the Potters had 
intended to choose Sirius as their secret keeper, and there were 
all those Muggles saying they'd seen Sirius attack Peter.

 Dumbledore could have interviewed Sirius, but I can think of a 
good reason  why he didn't.  We know that before the attack on 
the Potters, Dumbledore already suspected that Sirius might be 
the traitor. 

That means that he felt Sirius was capable of lying to him. He 
must have suspected that Sirius was an Occlumens, and 
probably a Legilimens as well. 

Dumbledore was the only one who knew the precautions which 
he had taken to protect baby Harry, and how they might be 
defeated. It would not be a good thing for that knowledge to fall 
into the hands of Voldemort's second-in-command. Whatever 
Sirius learned from Dumbledore, he might pass  to others  or to 
the Dementors, whom Dumbledore considered Voldemort's 
natural allies.

Pippin