A Sirius Problem

[Tim]

No: HPFGUIDX 172720

I didn't really have a problem with this.  I have things in storage 
now from when I was in high school (I'm 41).  Sirius could have been 
trying to get all the things that were precious to him (like the 
letter) after the XMas incident in OotP... especially if they 
related to Harry.  Remember, Harry had not been back to GP since 
that XMas incident.

Tim

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "duffypoo" <cldrolet at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 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!
>