[HPforGrownups] Re: Debatable ethical issues in OotP and HBP

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 142464

--- dumbledore11214 <dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Again, I am simply not buying that the choices for Sirius were to 
> live depressed or to die depressed. It seems to me that if 
> Dumbledore would simply pay more attention then Sirius' choices 
> could have been to live or die of course, but not necessarily 
> depressed. 
> 
> Oh, and of course Harry has invisibility cloak. I think he would
> not have minded giving it to Sirius if he needed to go on a 
> mission undiscovered.

Well, maybe the answer is: there really wasn't any task that Sirius
was qualified to perform.  

Granted he's good in a fight (although being the only one killed in
the Battle at the MoM might not look that way), but how many times
would the Order get into a street fight?  It certainly wasn't their
strategy in OOTP.

Sirius' personal tragedy was that he was irrelevant to the fight the
Order was currently waging and he was increasingly irrelevant to
Harry, who had actually outgrown him without realizing it.  (Although
I think Sirius did realize it and tried to adjust his behaviour
accordingly.)  

If Lucius Malfoy knew he was an animagus, then rest assured the other
DE's knew too.  And he could thank Molly for that info; on a crowded
train platform, "Act more like a dog, Sirius!"  Great move there,
Molly; why didn't you stop off at the Daily Prophet and leave a press
release while you were at it?

I guess I really don't see why members of the Order should have
adjusted their busy lives to make a grown man feel good about himself
when everyone knew the dangers out there and the importance of
secrecy.  So he was bored.  There are worse things than being bored. 


Magda




	
		
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