[HPforGrownups] Re: In defense of DD WAS musings on Dumbledore - Even Longer

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 158676

Tonks:
That is not what I meant. What I was saying was that it was necessary for
Harry to have at least one Godparent for his Baptism and because Sirius was
James' best friend he would be given that honor. By *both* James and Lily.
In my mind a Godparent and a guardian are two different things.  But as I
remember now I guess Sirius was able to sign Harry's permission slip, which
in itself is a bit odd because Petunia and Vernon were still his legal
guardians at the time. So did he have 3?  Or did Sirius sign in his duties
as Godparent?  It all seems a bit confusing. But I did not mean that Lily
was the "yes dear" type!! I do not see Lily that 
way either.


Sherry:

Unless you are contending that Sirius is lying in POA, as he and Harry are
walking through the tunnel from the shack, Sirius says he is Harry's
guardian.  Your parents appointed me your guardian, or something.  Legally,
I do not believe the Dursleys are Harry's guardians.  Sirius is. Was, I
mean.  And DD was apparently fine with Sirius signing the permission form.



Tonks:

Lets say that a Godparent is a legal guardian. If that be the case, I think
the fact that Hagrid had the kid and the guardian's motorcycle that Sirius
must have somehow given his consent to Harry being with his aunt. I know
that this isn't canon either, but the bike and Hagrid and the kid all
together is. I think that is as good a piece of evidence as any. Instead of
blaming DD, maybe you should blame Sirius.



Sherry:

I'm never comfortable with blaming the victim.  Sirius is the victim in
every way.  He just lost his best friend, the one who was like his brother,
the one whose family took him in when he fled from his own family.  and he
lost them as a result of his own idea to switch secret keepers.  There's no
canon either that he was expecting Hagrid to take Harry away forever, that
Harry would live with his relatives forever.  Sirius is not at fault.  He
was the innocent victim, convicted of a crime he didn't commit and forced to
live twelve miserable years in a fate I cannot even begin to comprehend,
while the child he should have been raising lived with abuse and neglect.
And DD went on his way,  Apparently to me anyway, not caring at all about
the two lives he had destroyed that night.  

Now, yes, this had to happen for the sake of the story, but since this topic
has come up, I'm very much beginning to lose most of the respect I ever had
for the so-called epitome of goodness, based on his actions toward two
innocents, whose lives appeared to be nothing but pieces on a chess board.
If he hadn't needed Snape as a spy, would Snape's fate have been the same as
that of Sirius?

Sherry