[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius and jail

[Marion Ros]

No: HPFGUIDX 167372

justcarol said:
>>>All the evidence we have indicates that Dumbledore, like the rest of
the WW, believed that Sirius Black had betrayed the Potters, killed
the twelve Muggles and Pettigrew, and escaped from Azkaban to murder
Harry. No one (except Black himself) saw Pettigrew blow up the street
and transform into a rat to escape into the sewers. No one (except
Black) knew that Pettigrew had blown off his own finger and faked his
own death. The witnesses, all Muggles who subsequently had their
memories modified, testified that Black had blown up the street,
killing thirteen people. And Black, blaming himself for the Secret
Keeper switch, merely laughed like a madman s the Aurors took him away
and apparently made no effort to defend himself to them or to Crouch.<<<

Marion:
Ah, but don't forget that Sirius didn't know Peter was still alive until he saw that foto of the Weasleys in the newspaper and he recognised Peter's animagus form.
So what had happened? Sirius finds the Potters betrayed, he goes off, being impulsive as usual, to search for Peter because Peter no doubt betrayed them and fooled him. So they meet, they sling hexes and curses at eachother, enough to blow up the street and kill thirteen Muggles. Peter does his chop-the-finger disappearing act and when the smoke clears, the street is littered with dead and dying Muggles and Peter's bloody robes plus finger. And then the Aurors turn up.
Of course Sirius didn't defend himself, Sirius thought he had killed Peter and several Muggles. Of course he laughs like a madman, he's had his revenge, but when the smoke clears he had to come to terms with the fact that because of his stupidity, impulsiveness and gullibility, he changed places with Peter as Secret Keeper which killed the Potters and he killed his one-time friend Peter and several nameless Muggles.
Of course he didn't defend himself from the charges of murder, he believed himself to be a murderer! (and as for the explosions which killed thirteen Muggles, I don't think Peter was solely responsible for that; they were clearly fighting eachother which got innocent bystanders killed)
It was only when Fudge showed him the newspaper with the foto of the Weasleys winning the lottery, with Ron holding Scabbers that he realised that Peter had bamboozled him *again*.
Which is why he escaped.
Let me repeat that: he only escaped when he realised that he did not murder Peter.
He could have escaped in his animagus form any time he wanted to. But he thought he was a murderer. He felt guilty for killing his former friend, the traitor. When he realises he's been fooled again, he stops his selfimposed incarceration and promptly escapes.

Incidently, it says something about Sirius' personality that he didn't and doesn't feel even sligtly guilty about nearly killing Snape by the cunning use of a werewolf, but he does feel guilty about supposedly killing his traitorous friend who talked him into changing Secret Keeper with him only to betray the secret.
He's very good about dehumanising people who are not from his 'pack'.
But then, who knows what Peter had said during their magical fight. "Oh Sirius, I didn't *mean* to, he tortured me" etc etc. And Sirius, being frigging Sirius would've flung curses about in his anger and grief even more *because* of Peter's whinging, and this of course would give Peter plenty of cover to do his dissappearing act.



 
 

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