Peter Pettigrew and Serius Black (was Re: DD is Dead/Snape)

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No: HPFGUIDX 137606

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
 

> What I'd like to know, is how it was that Black was cleared and his 
> will was read within weeks of his death? What evidence was presented 
> that couldn't have been presented before?

Marianne:

I think this not important, in JKR's mind. The neat tying up of all 
untied Sirius threads (Will, estate, dispostion of Kreacher, ownership 
of 12 Grimmauld Place, knowledge of MoM officials of Sirius' presence 
at the battle in the Dept of Mysteries, whether or not his name is 
cleared) were things that were lingering out there, but are no longer 
germane to the course of the story.  So, they were dealt with 
efficiently and with a minimum of story space. It was chiefly these 
things with regards to Sirius that made me think, as I've state 
before, that JKR had a mental checklist of things she wanted to deal 
with and get out of the way in HBP.

Which is not to say that I find this particularly satisfying.  We know 
that DD spent half an hour with Fudge after the battle in the Dept. of 
Mysteries at the end of OoP.  To our knowledge, he still had no 
evidence to prove Sirius' innocence. I guess that since DD was proven 
irrefutably right about Voldemort's return, then Fudge was willing to 
believe anything nice he said about a fugitive mass murderer. 

Fudge makes mention in the first chapter of HBP that there will be an 
inquiry into the fact that Sirius was murdered inside the Ministry.  
Did that ever take place, or was Fudge simply making bureaucratic 
noises? I can certainly see someone like Fudge wanting as little 
publicity as possible being paid to the fact that the Ministry had 
wrongly imprisoned someone for 12 years.  But, you'd think that 
somewhere along the line Harry might have wanted that message to be 
mentioned publicly at least once.  IIRC, we have no evidence that 
Harry even knows the Minister has admitted the government's error.

Marianne, still liking HBP, if dissatisfied with certain specifics