[HPforGrownups] Puzzlement of the day

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 166291

 Sirius Black is Harry Potter's godfather.
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> What's a godfather (in the context of the WW, of course)?
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> Bart


My theory is that a Wizard Godfather is the same as a normal Godfather- 
someone that is supposed to take care of you if your parents can't and there 
aren't other relatives. Thus, if the Dursleys didn't want Harry, Sirius 
would have been the next in line to raise Harry. We see Sirius, after he 
gets out of prison, taking some responsibility for Harry as if he were a 
legal gaurdian, which the wizarding world considered him to be more than the 
Dursleys.

Shelley