Debatable ethical issues in OotP and HBP

[kiricat4001]

No: HPFGUIDX 142416

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
>> Now I'm going to step out on a limb and say that Black's 
situation is
> in large measure his own fault. While others (notably Wormtail and
> Dumbledore, and to a lesser degree, Snape with his taunts) play a
> role, Black has made the bed that he's lying in. To begin with, he
> talked James Potter into making Wormtail the Secret Keeper. 

<massive snippage>

Marianne:

This has always bothered me about dissections of Sirius' character. 
The fact that he made a mistake in trusting his friend Peter is 
somehow a character flaw in Sirius. I suppose it's also a flaw with 
James and Lily, and obviously Dumbledore, too, in that the man 
running the OoP didn't figure out Peter was a spy, but Sirius is the 
one taken to task for it.  Yes, you can say that this event was the 
precursor for things that went wrong in Sirius' life later, but I'm 
uncomfortable for condemning people for honestly made mistakes, 
especially when they end up paying a high price for someone else's 
sin.  

Marianne