A Sirius Problem

[duffypoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 172674

I've been trying to read all the posts from yesterday and didn't see 
anything on this topic so here goes.

I find it hard to believe that the letter from Lily to Padfoot was 
found in GP.  Sirius left there when he was 16 and, apparently, didn't 
go back until the house was turned into the OotP HQ, when Sirius was 
35-36?  He certainly wouldn't have gone into hiding there (from LV 
during the first war) because the Black family were LV 
supporters..whether they got cold feet or not. Sirius "hated the whole 
lot of them: my parents, with their pure-blood mania, convinced that 
to be a Black made you practically royal...my idiot brother, soft 
enough to believe them ..." (OotP CanEd Pg 104).

If Sirius had the letter in his posession when he was taken in by the 
Ministry after his "meeting" with Pettigrew, it most certainly would 
have been confiscated.  If he had left it in his hiding place, how on 
earth did it get back to GP?

Say, for argument, that Sirius, after his escape from Azkaban as 
Padfoot, went back to the original hiding place, and brought the 
letter with him to GP (OotP HQ) why did he not show it, or at least 
the picture, to Harry while Harry was residing there?  He certainly 
knew how hungry Harry was for any information about his family.

It just seems all very contrived.

DuffyPoo
aka CathyD
sorry I haven't posted in a while and can't remember who I was!