Harry as godfather (Was: Sirius Black's role in DH -- why?)

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 179192

Carol responds:
> Recklessness (as, surely, even his most devoted fans agree), is 
> Sirius Black's defining characteristic. Not only did his arrest 
> after his reckless decision to go after Pettigrew himself cost the 
> child Harry a relationship with his godfather from infancy to age 
> thirteen.
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Dana:
There is only one problem I see with this interpretation and that is 
that Sirius chose to go after Peter AFTER he was denied access to 
Harry. Sirius went after Peter when he lost Harry too and therefore 
he lost everything within a single moment. 
Going to DD instead of going after Peter would not have changed 
matters all that much, because DD had decided that Harry would go to 
his aunt because of the blood protection his mother had given him.
 
Not a single person from the WW ever interfered with Harry during the 
time he was at the Dursely's and not of them where bound by the 
confinements of Azkaban. Lupin was a free as a bird but he never went 
to see Harry, DD never went to see Harry and neither did Snape in the 
years Harry was with the Dursley's. And Molly, big to condemn 
everyone, was not in the picture during the time Harry was with the 
Dursley's and only got to know Harry slightly more intimate a year 
before either Lupin and Sirius did. 

It wasn't Sirius decision to go after Peter that coast Harry his 
connection to the WW or to Sirius himself but it was DD decision even 
before Sirius would have had the chance to take Harry under his wing. 
Sirius only decided to go after Peter after he knew perfectly well 
that he would be denied access to Harry and that there was nothing 
for him to do then make the one who caused it all, pay for what he 
had done. 

JMHO

Dana