Sirius's situation his fault? WAS Re: Debatable ethical issues in OotP and HBP

[lucianam73]

No: HPFGUIDX 142421

> Carol:
(mucho snipped)
> > After Godric's Hollow, he took matters into his own hands and 
went 
> > after Wormtail rather than going to Dumbledore for help

Lucianam:

That was not his first choice. We know from Hagrid that before going 
after Peter he asked Hagrid to give Harry to him. How could he have 
gone after Peter with a baby in his arms? Unless you believe Sirius 
to be completely crazy, his intention of taking the baby with him 
shows he had a plan to go somewhere else. We don't know where, of 
course. Maybe he even meant to go to Dumbledore, why not? He was 
single, he didn't live with his family, he didn't trust his only 
other close 'friend' left, Lupin.

Maybe he indeed planned to go see Dumbledore, but we won't ever know 
that, will we?

Only after Hagrid tells Sirius he can't have his godson, Sirius 
leaves to find Peter.

> 
> 
> > Carol:
> > (again, snipped)
> > The first sensible thing he does is to fly to some
> > tropical paradise on Buckbeak, but he forgoes safety and flies to
> > England to live on rats and hide in caves when he hears that
> > Harry's scar hurts.
> >

Lucianam:

It's clear Sirius puts Harry's well-being before his own, even 
before his own safety.

>Sherry:
(snip snip)
> Snape pushed Sirius' buttons,
>and Sirius allowed them to be pushed. So, ok, they were both acting 
>more
>like a child than Harry, but that doesn't make Sirius any more to 
>blame for
>that argument than Snape. In fact, since it was Sirius' house and 
>it wasdealing with Sirius' god son, perhaps dear Sevvy should have 
>tried to show a
>little more respect.

About Snape, funnily I don't think he was much to blame. He was 
Sirius's 'enemy', and whatever he said made Sirius pissed and 
uneasy, maybe even contributed to his wish to leave the house and go 
to the MOM, but I don't think it added much to his depression.

I think what Sirius's friends - The Order - didn't do had more 
weight. Molly's lack of confidence in Sirius, Dumbledore not 
thinking of an alternative solution to his being locked up, nodoby 
actually trying to reach him and cheer him up... Well, I can't help 
noticing we read a lot about Sirius going up to his mother's room to 
be alone with Buckbeak, and not once we read about anyone (Arthur, 
Molly, Lupin, Tonks, Moody, Dumbledore, Bill, anyone at all!) 
knocking on the door and trying to talk to him. Why not even once?

Lucianam