Sirius' situation his own fault? WASRe: Debatable ethical issues in OotP and HBP

[pippin_999]

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> Alla:
> 
> The funny thing is that I don't see Dumbledore doing it for some 
> malicious, or Puppet!Master Dumbledore reasons at all. I think that 
> JKR simply needed Sirius in prison till PoA, period.
> 
> But I do think that Dumbledore's character suffers because of it. I 
> mean, really Dumbledore who is always, always giving people second 
> chances would not go to one of his former students, who was also one 
> of the Order Members to check up his account of events, to use some 
> Legilimency, maybe, just in case something went wrong?
> 

Pippin:
I think you're forgetting that Sirius was already under suspicion as a 
spy before Godric's Hollow, and Dumbledore must have already questioned
him intensively. With the testimony of  eyewitnesses to condemn him
and since JKR has told us there is no foolproof way to extract the
truth from a powerful and unwilling wizard, how could Dumbledore have
known whether Sirius was telling the truth or not? 

>From what Dumbledore says,  it was Harry's patronus that convinced him that 
Sirius's story of how they became animagi had to be true. I doubt he would
ever have believed that Peter was an animagus without it.

Pippin