Sirius' situation

[M. Thitathan]

No: HPFGUIDX 142383

> Alla: <snip>
> Sirius' safety is important? Sure, it is, but we do NOT know for sure that every DE knows about his animagus form,otherwise he could have been hunted down after he escaped from Azkaban and was on the Islands (or in whatever place he was hiding). He could have gone on the missions as Padfoot, any kind of mission, IMO.

Elyse: 
And even if all the DE's did know his Animagus form, they could hardly shoot him on the street. <SNIP>I think his dog disguise would have been a better used to spy on people, 
maybe better than Snape, since people aren't fussed what they say around a stray dog.


CH3ed: 
I think the DEs didn't know Sirius was an animagus until after the graveyard scene in GoF when they were reunited with LV. LV would have learned of it from Wormtail after he escaped at the end of PoA. So Sirius was quite safe getting around in his animagus form in PoA and GoF.

I think also that it was Harry who learned the identities of some of the DE's from Sirius when HRH visited Sirius in GoF at the cave above Hogsmead. I don't think it would be that hard for the DE's to kill a dog in the open, though. If  muggles see that the DE could just modify their memory, perhaps, but I don't know that the DE's would really even bother with that. I don't think they are a bunch that care much about image. 

 

I agree with both Alla and Elyse on the rest of their posts on the subject, though. There are things that could have been done to ease Sirius' situation. So DD's weak point was indeed that he was too left brain oriented... too intelligent that he tended to neglect the emotions of those around him (or maybe he didn't neglect that but was wrongly expecting them to be able to always put reason before their own feelings). 

CH3ed