[HPforGrownups] Re: Lupin visiting Sirius in Azkaban

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 112112

> Alla:
> Then you and me share the same worldview in that aspect.
> Coming back to what Dumbledore thought, I still prefer to think
> that 
> he did not know that Sirius was innocent, otherwise  it will turn
> my view of the message that book convey totally upside down and I
> don't want that to happen.


Maybe I'm being naive but do people really think there's a
possibility that Dumbledore KNEW Sirius was innocent and left him in
Azkaban anyway?  I assumed people were talking about it as a theory
only.  

Of course Dumbledore didn't know Sirius was innocent. How could he?  
Once he found out - by questionning Sirius before the hospital scene
in POA - he did what had to be done to prevent Sirius from being
dementored.  And he was a heck of a lot more effective at saving him
than Sirius was at saving himself.  

Reckless and thoughtless are descriptive terms that accurately
reflect Sirius' propensity for "ready-fire-aim" strategies.  Both
times he went after Peter (in the backstory and in POA) he managed to
make himself look guilty as sin.  It was a necessary part of the plot
in POA but it certainly was realistic, wasn't it?

Magda



		
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