sirius black

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 140082

> 
> Sherry adds:
> 
> I also think the scene is in there for great dramatic effect.  to
make it
> more of a shock, when we find out Sirius is not the bad guy.  But
yeah, he's
> trying to keep Harry from killing him before he can explain.  

Finwitch:

I also noticed few things about that scene. First words we hear from
Sirius Black express concern for Ron's injured leg (when Ron's talking
about killing!). And, before Lupin comes, and a bit afterwords, he
speaks of 'the rat' all the time. Obsessed, was he not? The obsession
that got him out of Azkaban...

Lupin, I believe, used Legilimency on Sirius, speaking aloud what he
learns. Which is, of course, why he *knows* which is speaking the
truth here... and I think Dumbledore did that when *he* spoke with
Sirius. Of course, the event is described by Harry who doesn't know of
that line of magic...

Snape and Lupin were the *really* dangerous people there. Look at how
Snape proposes to take the werewolf out - and later, Lupin volunteered
to do that... I don't blame Sirius - first 12 years with Dementors, 
Obsessed about getting Peter - just made up with his friend and
meeting his godson -- he was in no condition to know what phase of
Moon it was. And I'd say he trusted his friend to say something if it
was full moon...

The kids - well, they're kids and can't be expected to bear
responsibility over adults and well, Pettigrew was the evil villain
there...

But Snape&Lupin, planning to take this werewolf out of the tunnel,
thus endangering the three kids AND, by extention, all at Hogwarts who
haven't learned animagi? Well, I suppose they *both* were under the
DADA-teacher curse here. Snape *did* have the position for a day, did
he not?

Finwitch