Sirius and his family status

[Heather Hadden]

No: HPFGUIDX 184052

>Potioncat:
>This is what I recall from some of Harry and Sirius's conversations.
>The Black's were never DEs themselves. They were proud when Regulus
>joined, but at some point they thought LV had gone too far. I'm not
>sure what they knew about Regulus's death. We don't know when Mrs.
>Black went mad, or whether it's just her portrait that's over the bend.
>So I don't think they ever saw him as a hero.
>
>I think it was the Dark Magic that caused the rift between them rather
>than any Muggle-loving attitudes. I'm not sure that's stated in the
>books, but Sirius waves at all the Dark objects in the house and
>says, "You can see what kind of wizards my parents were." (or something
>like that.)

 
We also have to assume that if the Blacks were DEs or whatever, they would have known that Sirius wasn't a DE and that he took the fall for someone in LV's ranks, they could have possibly known that it was Peter who gave LV the info he needed.
 
Heather