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

[sunnylove0 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 158405

 
In a message dated 9/16/2006 2:43:50 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
sherriola at earthlink.net writes:

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. 


Why didn't he go to Dumbledore and tell him the truth instead of flying off  
the handle and going after Pettigrew?  Dumbledore would have  listened.  Why 
did he risk Lupin and Snape's lives over a silly joke? And  why didn't he grow 
up after the prank, like James did? Sirius is not mature  after Azkaban 
because he wasn't mature before.
 
a_svirn:
Oh yeah? I guess Harry's parents had no business to appoint him a  
guardian then. Probably had no business to get married and conceive 
a  child unless it was with Dumbledore's explicit permission. 

I know James trusted Sirius, (and he made him godfather, which is not  
synonymous with legal guardian, BTW) and he probably would have been fine  with 
Harry if Voldemort had not marked him.  But this goes back to the  discussion at 
the end of OOP, the same hole DD fell into.  Is the happiness  of one child 
worth the lives of 7000+ others when Voldemort comes back?  (and DD knows he will 
stop at nothing to be back)  This is not a  black and white decision.  This 
is real world, shades of grey, the lesser  of two evils.  These decisions 
happen in life.
 
a_svirn:
And this infant's survival depends in turn on Dumbledore's  
extraordinary brainpower. Which is known to be infallible. Got it.
 
Of course Dumbledore is imperfect.  We all are.  Does that mean  he should 
wash his hands of the whole affair and let Harry be murdered?  Dumbledore did 
the best he could to protect Harry's life.  
 
Amber, JMO.


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