Lupin visiting Sirius in Azkaban

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 111862

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
> <dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> > > Marianne:I don't recall Dumbledore saying that he suspected 
Sirius was the traitor.
> > 
> > 
> > Alla: Me neither, 
> > Pippin, point us to the right direction, please? :o)
>

Pip: 
> =====
> PoA chapter 10
 
> "He suspected Black?" gasped Madame Rosmerta.
> 
> "He was sure that somebody close to the Potters had been 
> keeping You-Know-Who informed of their movements,"said 
> Professor McGonagall darkly. "Indeed he had suspected for 
> some time that someone on our side had turned traitor and was 
> passing a lot of information to You-Know-Who."
> =====
> 
> I gather from this that Dumbledore was already trying to find out 
> who the traitor was and had been unable to eliminate Sirius from 
> his list of suspects.
> 
> Pippin

Valky:
I interpret this differently to Pippin. 

I see that this canon does yet imply that DD may have eliminated 
Sirius as a suspect. If, perchance, DD was concerned that the 
traitor might still have access to the secret because *Sirius* 
trusted them. 

Naturally DD would assume, if the traitor was close to James then 
he's close to Sirius too. DD may have judged Sirius to be 
trustworthy as did James, but too sensitive, too emotionally 
involved with the traitor, as James did not.