Who is Harry's guardian? WAS: Re: Identifying with Muggles -

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>Sherry
>Dumbledore's
>hands are not clean for me in the matter of the imprisonment of 
>Sirius Black, a completely innocent man who suffered a horrible 
>fate because nobody bothered to even try to find out the truth. and 
>Harry suffered years of abuse as a direct result of that.

>Sherry, who still loves Dumbledore, but does not believe every move 
>and judgment he made was right or justifiable.

Orna:
Sirius felt guilty as hell, and acted guilty as hell. It seems that 
he didn't mind what was going on with him any more – once the 
Potters were dead  So it seems he didn't put much of a fight to 
connect DD and tell his side of the story. (Come to think of it – he 
knew he was Harry's godfather, and that Harry's parents were dead. 
Why didn't he try to reach DD, if only for Harry's sake? He acted 
only when he found PP was endangering Harry. And perhaps it might 
added, that he wanted to revenge. Because that's the way he acts in 
PoA – not a man trying to seek justice, but to commit the murder for 
which he was sentenced). In PoA when Harry accuses him of killing 
his parents – he admits it. He doesn't seek DD out to tell him his 
story, but prefers bursting into Hogwarts, with a knife and trying 
to kill PP by himself. DD didn't know of PP being an animagus, so he 
had no way of figuring out, that PP stayed alive. Sirius didn't try 
to seek him out then – not before he tried to kill PP, and not 
after. He changed secret-keeping  without consulting in anybody – 
not even DD. 

Still - DD might have wanted to meet him – to  hear his side of the 
story – which he didn't.  it's true that Snape and even Morphin were 
treated better in this respect. But Snape – seems to have initiated 
some step towards DD and the "good side". Sirius – didn't. In poA DD 
went and talked with him – and immediately believed him. So it 
stands right there – why he didn't seek him out in the first place. 
But it seems also that Sirius was a very lone player – all along.He 
seeked more help from Crookshanks than from DD, Lupin. It doesn't 
help much under circumstances like that. 

Orna