Lupin visiting Sirius in Azkaban

[hannahmarder]

No: HPFGUIDX 111972

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich 
<mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> >   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) :)) 

Hannah now: Could our friend Severus Snape have anything to do with 
it?  I find it hard to understand why Snape didn't know that 
Pettigrew was the traitor, since the other death eaters seemed to 
know, judging by their lack of surprise at finding him by LV's side 
at his return.  Maybe he didn't know until after the betrayal 
occurred (because that raises the question of why he didn't tell DD 
if he did know who the traitor was), and perhaps he decided it would 
be rather fitting to see his old enemy Black in Azkaban.  He could 
have lied to DD about having found some sort of damning evidence 
that Black was indeed the traitor.

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.

Hannah now: Maybe it's not for Sirius' protection, but for Harry's.  
If Sirius was on the scene, I'm not sure how the law works here, but 
wouldn't he have the right, as Harry's godfather, to care for him? 
Perhaps DD felt that it was necessary to have Sirius out of the way, 
so that he had control over Harry's fate himself.  It was best for 
Harry to go to the Dursleys, however nasty, but I doubt Sirius would 
have agreed to that, he'd have wanted to protect Harry himself, even 
if it was a less effective protection.  And maybe it was felt he 
wasn't the best person to bring up a vulnerable young child? He 
wasn't a very good influence on even a teenaged Harry.

Hannah