Who was responsible for Sirius' death?

[Annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 167408

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "KathyK" <zanelupin at ...> wrote:
>
> Bellatrix, Snape, Harry, Sirius, Dumbledore could all share some of
> the blame for his death.
> 
> But I think we all know who is really at fault.  Clearly it's 
Grawp. 
> It's great that he just happened to show up in the nick of time to
> save Harry and Hermione from the Centaurs but did he have to go and
> bleed all over the place?  If he'd just kept his blood to himself
> those thestrals wouldn't have conveniently appeared to fly the Harry
> and co. off to the Ministry.  Without thestrals, they may not have
> made it to the Ministry at all.  And then Sirius would have no 
reason
> to rush off and try to protect Harry.  
> 
> No blood, no thestrals, no Ministry, no duel, no veil.
> 
> Yep, all Grawp's fault.
> 
> KathyK, also considering Hagrid may have had something against 
Sirius
> and that's why he brought young Grawpy home
>

Annemehr:
Oh, no.  Here we go again.

It's amazing to me that people are always ready to give the centaurs 
a pass, just because they're "cool," when at the same time they are 
ready to place all the blame on the giants just because they are not 
so pretty.

It was clearly all those arrow-shooting centaurs who are responsible 
for Sirius's death.

And yes, I know, Grawp *knocked a snow-white centaur over* [OoP ch. 
33, p. 759 US].  But it was a complete accident; he was only 
innocently reaching for "Hermy" to find out where "Hagger" was.  A 
centaur should be smart enough to figure that out.

In fact, I say the centaurs knew exactly what they were doing -- the 
book says Grawp knocking over the white one was "what the centaurs 
had been waiting for."

The Centaurs *chose* to shoot their arrows, and should bear full 
responsibility.

Annemehr,
saying: look for my new theories coming soon -- 
C.L.O.P. : Culpability Lands On Ponies
and 
U.P.-G.R.A.W.P. : Usual Posts - Giants Receive Awfully Warrantless 
Prejudices