[HPforGrownups] Re: Who is Harry's guardian?

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 158387

Amber
Really?  Even if Sirius could have been proved innocent, he couldn't
protect himself from Bellatrix and her bunch, much less an infant with a
permanent target on his back.  He is impulsive, irrational, immature, and
flies off the handle at the slightest provocation.  He has no business
taking charge of 
Harry.   As far as DD knows, the magical world's  existence depends on the
life 
of this infant.  The priority is to keep him  alive.  James and Lily are
dead and their chosen guardian is the prime  suspect.  How do you expect him
to do anything else?
 

Sherry now:

Well, of course Sirius is impulsive and irrational.  He's been in prison
with dementors for 12 years!  He never had the chance to grow up the normal
way and to mature in the natural course of time and life.  He's damaged
emotionally by the time we meet him.  That doesn't mean he would have been
that way if Dumbledore had ever bothered to try to determine the truth, and
if he hadn't been sent to Azkaban without a trial.  He would have grown up
as we all do, and I expect that the responsibility of caring for Harry would
have done a lot to make that happen.  It seems to me that it would certainly
have been preferable to the misery and abuse heaped upon Harry by the
Dursleys.  I find the story of the young Sirius one of the most tragic in
the series.

Sherry