[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius' Innocence

[Miss Melanie]

No: HPFGUIDX 112827

DuffyPoo wrote:
"*You* are to alert Remus Lupin, Arabella FIgg, Mundungus Fletcher -- the old crowd.  Lie low at Lupin's for a while, I will contact you there." (GoF) Doesn't say anything about Lupin and Sirius getting in touch with the 'old crowd' together.  "I might add that werewolves are so mistrusted by most of our kind that his support will count for very little." (PoA)  Just because DD and Sirius trust Lupin doesn't mean all of the 'old crowd' did as well.  If a werewolf and a convicted murderer/escapee showed up at my door claiming the murderer was innocent, the 14 years-dead was alive, that LV was 'back' and that DD wanted to regroup, I'd have signed up in a second....NOT.  How many times have we heard convicts - and their familes/friends - claim they are innocent?  I'd have thought they were under a confundus charm.
 
My reply:  That's very true.  I think a part of these people always wanted to believe that Sirius was innocent.  Actually, I always thought that the wizarding world was all too easy to convict Sirius of this, I mean it just seems odd that more people didn't stand up and try to get him to trial.  Maybe it was just the horror that somebody in the inner-circle, even if it wasn't Sirius, betrayed them.  That is a very scary thought.  I will say this though I see no real reason why three 14 year olds would lie about it.  You can say all you want, but to accuse Harry whose best friends are a muggle born and a Weasley of aiding in an effort to bring Voldemort back to power seems a bit sketchy.  
 
~Melanie
 

		
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